La montagne retracée is deployed on a support wall along Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges between Forest Hill and Ridgewood avenues, facing the entrance to the cemetery. The work is composed of schematic elements and symbols made of aluminum and bronze referring to the Mount Royal’s history, topography, and vernacular and agricultural past. It includes a lighting system that makes it visible at night. Like artefacts, its component objects evoke the anonymous presence of people who shaped the space. The work invites people to remember this place of passage that is traversed by one of the main original streets of the town of Montréal and imagine its future.

The artist collaborated with the firm EXMURO arts publics for this project.

“Through its encyclopedic nature, the work revisits history, human activity, and the territory. It presents figurative elements in an abstract setting to link scientific imagery to a fantastic universe. Thanks to formal interplays between sculpture and painting, the mural is a hybrid between the immaterial and the material, between representation and reality.”

The mural La montagne retracée was produced for the section of Escales découvertes du mont Royal that highlights Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges. The landscaping done in this context offers Montreal strollers a renewed experience of the Mount Royal Heritage Site. They can rediscover the three mountains in the centre of the city , and gain access to remarkable vistas and little-known aspects of this vast area. This bequest for the 375th anniversary of Montréal also celebrates the rich history of Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges, designated as one of the founding routes of Montréal.