Claire Moeder is an author. She connects texts and photographs to create works in which the territory also becomes a character. A creative being and walker on the move, she traverses singular landscapes: coasts, primeval forests or islands. Her research takes her to places where the threat of disappearance is present. They enable her to access what lies beyond known narratives, and to reinvent a shifting relationship with the world.

She combines human testimonies with geological observations and an ear for place. In her poetry, she has woven together the stories of a dead mother, a newborn daughter, century-old trees, women who disappeared on the Highway of Tears in British Columbia, female walkers and even rocks. She draws on autofiction, mourning and the intimacy of the living in a context of site-specific and ecofeminist artistic practices, to give voice to fragility and fight against the erasure of our inner havens.

Born in France and based in the Gaspésie region since 2017, Claire Moeder initiates projects in the form of various writing, experimental walks, workshops and micro-publications. In Quebec, she has taken part in several residencies linking writing to the visual arts. She has been involved with a number of artists as an art critic and curator, and has published in specialized magazine before recently turning her attention to poetry. Her first collection, le ventre des roches, was published in 2024 by Éditions du Noroît.