Fanny Lord-Bourcier
About the Artist
Fanny Lord-Bourcier is an animator and multidisciplinary artist, based in Tio'tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. Curious and keen, she is continuously willing to adopt and be adopted by new places, disciplines, mediums, and people. Fanny uses her medium of choice, animation — the art of movement — to bring to life simultaneously playful and reflective interpretations of reality.
In 2023, Fanny obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts with great distinction from Concordia University, with a Major in Film Animation and a minor in Music. Her last film, Abby(2023), competed at the Ottawa International Film Festival in the Canadian Student category and won the National Film Board of Canada Best Emerging Canadian Short Film Award at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. Fanny's films have been screened in festivals worldwide, and her animations have been exhibited as video installations in several galleries.
Her work has been presented at the TIFF Bell Lightbox(2023), Ottawa Art Gallery(2023), Festival Accès Asie(2023), Pierre-François Ouellet Art Contemporain gallery(2023), McCord Museum(2022), among others.
Still from Anastomose du Coeur: to kiss inward, by Fanny Lord-Bourcier
Anastomose du Coeur: to kiss inward
Work Presented at Bouclair from April 29th to June 9th, 2024
Anastomose du Coeur: to kiss inward is a video diptych of a dreamed incarnation of horticultural grafting. This takes place inside the whimsical world of an orange. In this solarpunk futurist world, or as the artist likes to call it – citruspunk –, citrus beings live in tight-knit communities, sharing, growing and blossoming together.
“Grafting is the act of placing a portion of one plant (bud or scion) into or on a stem, root, or branch of another (stock) in such a way that a union will be formed, and the partners will continue to grow”. *1
Graft pairings are often chosen to combine their unique strengths. While the rootstock can provide hardiness to the land and climate, the grafted plant, which has its roots cut, is chosen for its fruits or flowers. Through self-sacrifice and the help of a nurturing support system, the graft can adopt new roots and bring its fruits and flowers to a new community.
Through the use of karaoke and mockumentary, Anastomose du Coeur: to kiss inward also navigates the ethics and shortcomings of migration and displacement, as we graft ourselves into different communities and lands.
*1 The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Graft”. September 15, 2023,
