montages studies/ 2020 - 2025

Throughout these montage studies, Guillaume draws inspiration from traditional dance, where movement connects the individual with the natural world. Influenced by watching his late Native American mother perform at Pow Wows, he observed how traditional regalia incorporates organic materials that move with the dancer. Using a large-format camera, he arranges pieces of nature - leaves, twigs, and plant fragments, many of which are decomposing, that appear frozen mid-gesture. Through careful positioning, these found elements create compositions that pulse with life, creating a visual dialogue between cultural memory and natural decay. This ongoing project explores how the suggestion of movement can breathe life into death, revealing the fragile boundary between our perception of existence and the constructed nature of life itself. Moreover, the work demonstrates how movement and our environment connect us to our past.