SEL SAINT LAURENT X C2 MONTREAL

Sel Saint Laurent presented the exhibition ESTUAIRE – The Memory of Salt from May 20 to 22, 2025, at C2 Montréal.

Through visual works, objects, and fragments of installations inspired by the sea salt flakes of Sel Saint Laurent, ESTUARY – The Memory of Salt is a sensory and purposeful exhibition — a tribute to the St. Lawrence River, a place of wonder deeply entwined with our identity.

ESTUARY — The Memory of Salt
Manuel Bujold, Nancy Guignard
Artists and Salt Makers

The word “salary” comes from the Latin salarium, an allowance given to Roman soldiers, originally intended for the purchase of salt — a precious commodity born from the evaporation of seas and carefully harvested. Salt has shaped empires, sparked revolts, and endured through centuries like a precious dust of the Earth.

It moves silently through history, charged with meaning, power, and memory.

Through observation, harvesting, and travels across salt landscapes to learn from traditional artisans, salt has led us to a profound question: what truly determines the value of a thing — its rarity, its price, its utility, or the story it holds and the beauty we uncover when we dare to see it differently?

Salt has not lost its nobility — we have simply ceased to recognize it.

Each sale supports Sel Saint Laurent — a project grounded in meaning, territory, and looking toward the future. Presented by Mécénat Collectif — The Art of Financing Tomorrow’s Legacies

For any inquiries or to receive the full collection catalogue, please contact manuel@selsaintlaurent.com.

B-15
Manuel Bujold, 2020-25
Oil on wood, 48 x 96
Unique edition — $22 000 (CAD)

A23a / A38
Manuel Bujold, 2025
Giclée print, Arches paper, 18 x 24
Edition of 12 — $1,200 (CAD)

LESEDI LA RONA
Manuel Bujold, 2025
Diptych
A/ 11 x 14 — natural diamonds, acrylic on wood
B/ 11 x 14 — sea salt, acrylic on wood
Price upon request

 MANHATTAN LYCOS VS KLINGSPOR
Manuel Bujold, 2025
Mixed media, 221.47-carat black diamond and sandpaper, 24 x 36 (variable)
Price upon request

PAVOTS
This garden still lives in me — I wish I had never left.
Series of objects by Nancy Guignard, 2025
Unique edition — price upon request

SALT HAZE
Photographic triptych by Nancy Guignard, 2022
Edition of 7 — $2,800 (CAD)

LA PERMISSION
Photographic work by Maryse Goudreau, 2016
Edition of 15 — price upon request

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Thank you to everyone who made this exhibition possible — our collaborators at CC Imprimerie, our friends Kam Vachon and Sarka Paska, and the entire C2 Montréal team, including Marie-Pier Mignault (Senior Creative Director) and Eva Van den Bulcke (Creative Director and Director).

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Artists and entrepreneurs, we transform the river's salt into a driving force for sustainable and cultural  projects.

Sel Saint Laurent was born from an intimate encounter with the river — and the belief that even a single grain of salt can carry the power to transform.

This salt — cold-extracted and harvested by hand — holds more than taste: it crystallizes our commitment to protecting biodiversity, and envisions a new economic model, grounded in culture and oriented toward the future.

We are Manuel Bujold and Nancy Guignard, two artists united by the desire to live in harmony with our values.

This is our way of inhabiting the land: by creating, transforming, and innovating.

All rights reserved © Manuel Bujold, Nancy Guignard, 2025