[Le français suit] “As I continue to experiment on film with energy transfers around plants and their root formations, I also seek to transform some of their minute details into immersive luminous panoramas - matter dancing in light. It may seem cliché to assert that the very big is enfolded in the very small. But this reality is readily observable in the EM field of ash, elm or geranium leaf structures from which I extract minute details. When enlarged, these details behave very differently from what we perceive as immediate reality. If microscopes yield a detailed view of the “inside” of living bodies, digital tools probing their light coronas reveal fluid configurations. Here light penetrates matter, matter fuses with light, and in this interface the solidity of things dissolves under our eyes. […]” – MJM


For the past 40 years, Marie-Jeanne Musiol's work has been shown in museums and galleries in Europe, Asia, the United States and Canada. Her installations and videos have been featured, among others, at the Maison européeenne de la photographie and Palais de Tokyo (Paris), ZKM (Karlsruhe), TENT Rotterdam, Ludwig Museum (Budapest), New Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), Photon+ Techno Art (Taipei) and Oakland University Art Gallery (Rochester). She has worked with the Montreal Botanical Garden and the Jardins de Métis. Her photos and light works have also been exhibited at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto), the Baie-St-Paul International Symposium of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of Canada and, more recently, at the Art Gallery of Northumberland (Cobourg) and the Ottawa Art Gallery. Her work is represented in several collections: Art Bank, Art Gallery of Ontario, Bibliothèque nationale de France, City of Ottawa, Desjardins, Global Affairs Canada, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, National Bank, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Art Gallery, ScotiaBank, TDBank. In 2026, Marie-Jeanne Musiol received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Beginning in November 2026, her work will be featured in The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

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Marie-Jeanne Musiol assemble un vaste herbier énergétique avec les empreintes lumineuses des plantes dont elle extrait également des images en miroir du cosmos. Elle expose ses séries photographiques sous forme de caissons lumineux et d'installations dans des galeries et des musées au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Europe et en Asie. Ses vidéos captent en direct l'expression vitale des plantes qui palpitent dans la lumière. Dans le livre photographique La Forêt radieuse, publié en 2018 aux Éditions pfoac, elle décrit l'arc de création qui la conduit de la photographie électromagnétique aux dimensions holographiques de l'univers.