Roof Line Garden II and Swing Line Garden by Coryn Kempster Julia Jamrozik

Roof Line Garden II at the Musée de la civilisation and Swing Line Garden at the Reford Gardens by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster.

Roof Line Garden II © Marie-Josée Marcotte, Icône

Building on the success of last year, the International Garden Festival, in collaboration with the Musée de la civilisation of Quebec City, renewed this summer the installation Roof Line Garden by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster on the roof terrace of the Museum. As a reinterpretation of Line Garden, installed every year since 2014 on the site of the Reford Gardens, in Grand-Métis, the Roof Line Garden II of the Musée de la civilisation offers the public a new outdoor space of enchantment and relaxation.

Roof Line Garden II © Marie-Josée Marcotte, Icône

In Grand-Métis, for the 20th International Garden Festival, the project takes the name of Swing Line Garden. Here it is presented in the same colors as in Quebec City, and visitors are invited to sway under the canopy on an array of swings.

Roof Line Garden II © Marc-Antoine Hallé, Icône

Barricade tape is a ubiquitous, man-made material, typically used to delineate a perimeter and keep people out, but in Roof Line Garden II and Swing Line Garden, it invites visitors in, creating a playful and vibrant canopy.

Roof Line Garden II © Marc-Antoine Hallé, Icône

The visitors are invited to settle there, to live an experience at the same time visual and auditory, which changes according to the intensity of the light and the wind and the resultant varying rustling of the ribbons.

Roof Line Garden II © Marc-Antoine Hallé, Icône

This year, designers Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster were inspired by the color contrasts of poisonous frogs hiding in the foliage of a plant and the theme of natural science. The installation thus has colors that are linked to Venenum: A Poisonous World and Curiosities of the Natural World, the two main exhibitions of the Musée de la civilisation.

Roof Line Garden II © Marc-Antoine Hallé, Icône

Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster are Canadian artists and designers based in Buffalo, New York. Julia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Buffalo, and Coryn is an Adjunct Assistant Professor. Working together since 2003, they strive to create objects, spaces and situations that transform everyday life in a playful and stimulating way. Their work has been awarded with the League Prize by the Architecture League of New York in 2018.

Roof Line Garden II © Marc-Antoine Hallé, Icône

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Roof Line Garden II © Marie-Josée Marcotte, Icône

Roof Line Garden II © Marie-Josée Marcotte, Icône

Roof Line Garden II © Marie-Josée Marcotte, Icône

Roof Line Garden II © Marie-Josée Marcotte, Icône

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Swing Line Garden II © Jean-Christophe Lemay

Swing Line Garden II © Jean-Christophe Lemay

Swing Line Garden II © Jean-Christophe Lemay

Swing Line Garden II © Jean-Christophe Lemay