Cumuler les guérisons

Cumuler les guérisons (gathering healings), a solo exhibition presented at Centre Culturel Goerges Vanier (Montreal), from November of 2025 to January of 2026.

I want more. I have too much, but I still want more. I’m in pain, but I don’t stop. I want too much. Even more. It’s too beautiful, too good, I love it too much, I still want more.
A blue one, a yellow one, a gray one, a purple one, a round one, a wide one, a smaller one, one more, another one again—I have too many, I compensate elsewhere, I try to rebalance by adding more, even if it’s too much. It’s so beautiful—it would be even better with just a few more, just a little, then a little more. Then I’ll stop, because it hurts, but I can still take just a bit more. It’s too much, I know, but it’s not that serious, and it feels too good—I can’t stop. I want more. I’m stunned that I can keep taking more, I’m pushing my limits, but am I growing?

Wounds as so many chances to heal.
Bruises shaped from strings of colored pearls. Accumulation leading to loss—or to illumination.

Gathering Healings unveils bruises: mural structures of varying sizes covered with thousands of pinned colored beads. Their shades echo our little wounds. The whole is even more alive for containing fragments of flesh and intimate fabrics.

Physical and emotional wounds shape our identity. Their accumulation drives transformation—towards healing or towards collapse. To expose our wounds is to make ourselves vulnerable, but also to open a path to connection with others.

- text by Sophie Lépine

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