Marie-Jeanne Musiol

Marie-Jeanne Musiol (born 1950) is a Swiss-Canadian photographer. She was born in Winterthur, Switzerland.[1]

Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[1] the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,[2] the National Museum of Women in the Arts.[3] and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.[4] Musiol's work is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain (PFOAC),[5] a contemporary art gallery in Montreal, Quebec.

Biography

From the 1980s onwards, the artist explored the natural energy of plants using the Kirlian effect and a light-sensitive material such as negative film.[6] She founded the Daïmôn art center in 1986. In 1994, she gained widespread public recognition with the series The Shadow of the Forest: photographs of trees that had grown from the ashes at Auschwitz.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Marie-Jeanne Musiol". www.gallery.ca.
  2. ↑ "Marie-Jeanne Musiol: Corps de lumière no. 72". mfah.org.
  3. ↑ "In the shadow of the forest :(Auschwitz-Birkenau)". NMWA Library & Research Center. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  4. ↑ "Musiol, Marie-Jeanne - Collections - MNBAQ". Collections - MNBAQ.
  5. ↑ "Marie-Jeanne Musiol - Overview". Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain. Retrieved 2025-12-22.
  6. ↑ "Les herbiers énergétiques de Marie-Jeanne Musiol". Florilèges (in French). 2024-02-25. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  7. ↑ "ICI Radio-Canada Première | Balados, livres audio". Radio-Canada (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-21.