Montreal’s Architectural Heritage
First series
Although my current series is rooted in Montreal’s heritage neighborhoods, my artistic practice is not limited to them.
I am pursuing a broader body of work on architectural heritage in other cities, in Europe and elsewhere, with the same attention to the traces of time and the memory of places.
Why Montreal ?
This is where I live, where I walk, where I pause — and where I learned to truly see.
Through my images, I seek to reveal the weathered beauty of our built heritage: not to freeze the past, but to create a connection.
A connection between places and gazes, between memory and the present moment.
Because these façades also tell us something of ourselves..
A Note on the Approach
A neighborhood cannot be summed up in four photographs and two paragraphs.
This is also why I wanted to include, further on, a historical section for each of the chosen neighborhoods, in order to place them within a broader context.
I would also like to sincerely thank the staff of the CCA (Centre Canadien d’architecture) for their invaluable help during my many visits in search of historical and architectural information, as well as the staff of BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec), especially in the Archives section.
I have chosen to offer a perspective — necessarily partial — on certain places that live within me.
There are many neighborhoods in Montreal that I have not included here — not out of omission, but because I had to make choices, shaped by my own path and artistic practice.
These images and texts do not claim to say everything. They simply seek to convey an impression, a memory, an emotion.
Others would undoubtedly have seen things differently — and that, too, is part of the richness of a territory.
SAINT-HENRI
POINTE SAINT-CHARLES
PLATEAU MONT-ROYAL
MILTON-PARC
SHAUGHNESSY VILLAGE