MiLi is an illustrator, muralist and art educator living in Montreal, Canada. She has produced murals in more than ten countries and has appeared in numerous major events and festivals. She is interested in questions of identity in relation to their environment as well as the power of the ethics of care, play and imagination as a driving force for social pivot. Her sensitive, colorful and dreamlike aesthetic takes a look that is both naive and mature on the human experience.
Artwork description
The large-format mural ”Community” questions the impact of time and technology on communities and their environment. Its surrealist composition relates two important elements of the immediate environment of the Parc des Carrières; the railway and the bike path. These two markers have forged the neighborhood and the country, influencing the way of life of the families and communities living there. Pedestrians, families, cyclists intertwine forming a DNA Chain recalling the continuity of life. Finally, the presence of the Rocks in this dreamlike landscape is a nod to the quarries that forged the neighborhood at the time and made it possible to create the majority of stone buildings in Montreal until the 20th century.