The artwork Réciprocités is composed of an installation of simple shapes, relating three large arches made of stainless steel and two bronze elements: a hanging frieze with cut-out silhouettes of plants; and, on the ground, giving the impression of having become detached from one of the arches, a sculpture in the form of a milkweed pod. The 16 botanical specimens that compose the bronze frieze, like the shape of the milkweed sculpture, are borrowed from the herbarium The Lost Flora of Montreal, by Andrew Fernando Holmes (1797–1860), the botanist and founder of McGill University’s faculty of medicine.

The tubular stainless-steel shapes of the three arches directly accentuate the industrial heritage of the Griffintown district.

Réciprocités bears witness to the exchange between the industrial past of the area and its current renewal. This work celebrates life returning to a flourishing neighbourhood.

In February 2020, the Public Art Bureau held a competition by invitation for professional visual artists for the design and execution of an artwork for Place des Arrimeurs. The creation of this work falls within the Griffintown project. In May 2013, the Ville de Montréal adopted the Programme particulier d’urbanisme (PPU) – Secteur Griffintown, which presented both a vision of the neighbourhood and interventions developed by the Ville de Montréal to rehabilitate an industrial sector into a new innovative, inhabited, and sustainable neighbourhood. The PPU also recognizes the notion of the “cultural corridor of Ottawa Street” as a structural axis of Griffintown.