Destin Royal

2018- April to June, Unis Vert L'Art presents the group exhibition "Unis Vert l'Intemporel". The exhibition brings together the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, the hotel's artifacts to be recycled into artworks and several renowned artists such as Gilles Vigneault, Olivier Martineau and Don Darby.

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Destin Royal 33x51

Photographic print on hard cotton twill canvas, Photoshop, acrylic, clay, antique mirror from the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.

The relative freedom of famous people...

I wonder if young Elizabeth was dreaming of her future title, did she have smaller or larger dreams? I wonder if the burden of her responsibilities and representation were worth her life and if she could have left her status if she had so decided?

The relative freedom of famous people...

I wonder if young Elizabeth dreamed of her future title, did she have smaller or bigger dreams? I wonder if the weight of her responsibilities and her representation were worth her only life and if she could have left her status if she had decided that way?

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• For the U.V.A. project I wanted to create a fantasy world at theQueen's Tower, I imagined Elizabeth in a Hawaiian Garden of Eden, playing with the taste of freedom. I chose as artifacts 2 mirrors edged with gold ornaments, and I created 2 photographic works from my place of residence at the time, Kauai, Hawaii.

• It was through the invigorating jungle of Haena, north of kauai, a place renowned as one of the most majestic and paradisiacal places in the world, that the idea matured. With the help of my 2 accomplices, Marc époux and Christine muse, that I made and imagined my 2 future works, "Queen's Fantasy" and "How could she believe in it".