- City
- Montréal
- Booth
- Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 329
Clothilde Allen
Clothilde Allen was born in Montreal. From an early age, she has been interested in the magic of plants and the poetry of the ordinary. She finds inspiration from motherhood and gardening. Her art and research focus on the representation, cultivation and reclamation of nature in the city. She is particularly interested in the relationship between humans, plants and their environment. Gesture, movement and the gaze are central to her practice. They reflect the fluidity of the body's movements, like the writing of light.
Clothilde holds a Master’s degree in photography (2025) and a Bachelor’s degree (2018) in the same field from Concordia University, as well as a diploma in horticulture (2014). Notable group exhibitions include the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, where she was nominated in the categories “FLUX – In and Out of Focus” by Liz Ikiriko, “Crossing Rivers,” and by the magazine “Esse arts + opinions” (2025), “45 Passers-by” at the VAV Gallery (2024), “Apparition ondulante,” a temporary public art installation (1% project) created for the Rem with the support of Kelly Jazvak, Juan Ortis Apuy, and Yann Pocreau, presented at Place des Aiguilleurs (2023), “Parc Lafontaine and Île d’Orléans” presented at Ateliers 3333 (2022), “The states of becoming” at Livart (2018). As solo exhibition, she presented her thesis project: “Somewhere Else: The Pinhole Cameras of Gardeners” at Concordia’s MFA Gallery (2024) as well as “Discursive Pathways and Other Spaces” at the Maison de la culture Mont-Royal (2017).
