MATERIA INSOLITA

Created by Cassandra Lesage Fogué in 2024,

Materia Insolita, is a project space dedicated to the research of the weirdness of the banal­―to uncovering strange matter in the mundane. The projects presented here range in scope and medium―from film, photography, writing and editorial design―each supported by minutious attention attention to detail and research.

Within my work, I explore the speculations of visual representation, radical ecologies of design, conversations between new media and old media, and the research of new material explorations. I am always looking to collaborate on new projects, whether within, or outside of these bounds.

Feel free to reach out, I would love to chat.



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01 THE EDGE OF THE RIPARIAN

Grand River Watershed, Cambridge, Ontario.
PHOTO 2019
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02 for I had wished to rip my eyes out


for I had wished to rip my eyes out is a series of 39 photographs, scanned from a singular 36exp Kentmere ISO 100 B&W 35mm film roll. The film was shot traditionally using a SLR camera and a 50mm prime lens. It was souped in a solution of vinegar and rusty metal, before being hand developed in Kodak D76. From start to finish, this project took about six weeks to complete. Scanned as negatives, trace deposits of rust appear as delicate blues and green hues.

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PHOTO and VIDEO 2024, 2025
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03 AUTO|BIOGRAPHIES

Through a mixture of digital video and animated experimental analog photographic work, the mechanism of the camera, proxy of the eye, is dismantled. With minimal silent narration, the film invites the viewer onto an immersive journey—across green landscapes devoid of green, torn film and torn out eyes, and vegetal corpses — to rediscover the limits of their own vision and explore novel ways of presenting nature devoid of the human gaze

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SHORT FILM 2025
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04 ULTRAVIOLET GARDENS


Ultraviolet Gardens, is the thesis book I presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfilment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Architecture.

It was important to me, to avoid the rootedness of architectural sites, their boundaries and edges. I had a few options. I could center myself somewhere and in the way of Deleuze and Guattari, branch out from there, like a rhizome. I could create a mosaic of many places, in many times. Or I could focus on greenness, through its most obvious visual characteristic: the colour green.

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WORDS,RESEARCH
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05 SEEDS:LUMEN PRINTS


From Fall 2022 to Fall 2024, I worked in the Graphic Development of a series of lumen prints to be used across the fifth issue of galt. publication, a student-run, and peer-reviewed journal created at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.


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PHOTO, GRAPHIC DESIGN
2024/1


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06 SEEDS


From Fall 2022 to Fall 2024, I worked as lead editor for the fifth issue of galt. publication, a student-run, and peer-reviewed journal created at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.


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WRITING, EDITORIAL DESIGN
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07 SEEDS: MARKETING


In the Fall of 2024, I worked on the social media and marketing content for the launch of the fifth issue of galt. publication, a student-run, and peer-reviewed journal created at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.


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MARKETING, SOCIAL MEDIA, GRAPHIC DESIGN
2024/1

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