Délima, the very photogenic dachshund of Sara A.Tremblay, turned 15 in September 2024. By taking the time to select photographs of Délima from her various projects, travels, and series over the years, the artist plans to produce a small book featuring images that reveal the intimate relationship between an artist and her dog, as she slowly prepares for the mourning of her muse.

Sara does not want to celebrate her death, but rather her life, and allow her many friends to keep a trace of her presence among them.

Sara has always used photography and art in a subtly cathartic way, and she believes that producing this book will be of great help for the transition she will experience in the coming years.


The artist once read that what hurts most in mourning is not the loss of the living being, but the fact that when you lose them, you constantly dive back into memories, and this act makes you realize that you have truly lost, definitively, the being in question. It is therefore crucial for her to do this work while Délima is still happily running through the meadow…

Sara A.Tremblay's vast conceptual logbook, fueled by a photographic and performative approach, gathers fragments that oscillate between the everyday and the extraordinary of a life lived in the Eastern Townships countryside. Through photography, video, performance, and sculpture, she gathers and documents objects, ephemeral actions, interventions and the transformations she witnesses. Objects from her domestic space, some made by the artist; plants she has cultivated; bodies, often her own, but also that of her cat or dog, sometimes that of a small bird found lifeless in her field; reworked earlier works. Beyond these elements that bear witness to the experience, Sara's projects are above all about moments that go beyond the images.

Her work has been exhibited at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2023), Galerie B-312 (2023), Musée Colby-Curtis (2023-2024), Centre VU and l'Œil de poisson (2023), Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke (2019), Maison des arts de Laval (2017), Fondation Guido Molinari (2015), and YYZ Artists' Outlet (2014), among others. Her projects have also been covered in several magazines, such as Ciel variable, Vie des arts, and Esse.