Body-Territory Outdoor Contemporary Art Trail
ccdMalvina, new in 2026
In Brief
Body Territory is an outdoor contemporary art trail presented at ccdMalvina (Malvina Creation and Presentation Center, Saint-Malo, Estrie) as part of the 2026 season. It brings together prints, sculptures, sound installations, poetic interventions and performative traces by Sean Caulfield, Domingo Cisneros, Thom Gossage, Liz Ingram, Bernd Hildebrandt and Isabelle Van Grimde. The trail is free and outdoors, open on the public event dates listed on our website.
A Territory as Work
Body Territory is a trail where the land itself becomes at once a site of creation, a living memory and a space of transformation.
Bringing together prints, sculptures, sound installations, poetic interventions and performative traces, this trail gathers several projects developed at ccdMalvina around the relationships between body, environment, memory and contemporary technologies — including Essential Links: Body and Environment and Art, Technology and Territory.
Throughout the visit, the territory itself becomes the work: a place where memory, the living world and contemporary creation remain in dialogue.
The Artists
The trail brings together the practices of Sean Caulfield, Thom Gossage, Liz Ingram, Bernd Hildebrandt, Domingo Cisneros, Ana Rewakowicz and Isabelle Van Grimde, along with the many collaborators who, over the years, have helped make the Malvina territory a shared site of creation.
The most recent phase of the trail — created for the 2026 season — features a series of collaborative works by Sean Caulfield and Isabelle Van Grimde. Inspired by reflections on anatomy, landscape, interdependence and impermanence, these new works extend the dialogue between the human body and the living world that runs throughout the trail.
A Trail Designed to Evolve
The works on view invite visitors to perceive the territory as a living organism in constant evolution. Human bodies, plants, landscapes, stories and materials meet, transform and respond to one another over time.
Designed to evolve with the seasons and the elements, several interventions treat time itself as a creative medium. Rather than resisting transformation, they make it visible — revealing the fragile connections that bind living beings to their environment.
Credits
Curators: Isabelle Van Grimde and Thom Gossage
Artists: Sean Caulfield, Domingo Cisneros, Thom Gossage, Liz Ingram, Bernd Hildebrandt, Isabelle Van Grimde
Performative Traces: Emmanuelle Martin, Isabelle Van Grimde
Collaborative Works 2026: Sean Caulfield and Isabelle Van Grimde
Ecological Trail Design: Sentiers Boréal
Production: Van Grimde Corps Secrets / ccdMalvina
About ccdMalvina
Located on the site of the former village of Malvina (Saint-Malo, Estrie, Québec), founded in 1862, ccdMalvina is the research, creation and presentation centre of Van Grimde Corps Secrets.
About 40 minutes from Sherbrooke and 2h15 from Montréal, the site offers each summer a free outdoor program: immersive trails exploring heritage, contemporary creation, ecology and technology, as well as performances, participatory workshops, talks, artist residencies and festive events throughout the summer season.