The female body and nature — what's the connection?

La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (GNO) opens its 2014-2015 season starting at 5 p.m. Sept. 12 with a reception celebrating Continuums, a new exhibition by Ariane Thézé.

Showcasing some of the artist’s recent photographic work, the exhibition — which runs until Oct. 18 — was curated by guest curator Elia Eliev.

Thematically, Thézé’s works in Continuums explore the relationship between the female body and natural landscapes. The photographs show multiple representations of a figure created from images of the artist herself.

These images have been digitally manipulated in order to depict a figure, always indistinct and unidentifiable, springing forth and returning at once to its natural source. Among other poses, the figure assumes the stance of a tree: putting down roots and reaching out at once.

Thézé was born in Angers (France). She’s lived in Montreal since 1982 and has taught visual arts at both the University of Ottawa and Université du Québec à Montréal.

Her work has been shown in many galleries and museums in Montreal, Québec, Toronto, and Ottawa, as well as abroad: Paris, Brussels, Barcelona, Cuenca (Spain), Kassel, Stuttgart (Germany), Linz and Vienna.

For more information, visit gn-o.org.