Exporting Memory: A Gift for those who lived in Montreal
The Sense of the City
Ask any Montrealer currently residing in Toronto, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Vancouver or Berlin what they miss most, and they rarely mention the landmarks on the postcards. They miss the texture of the city.
They remember the distinct mechanical resistance of the "butterfly" doors—those heavy, single glass panels that pivot 90 degrees to create two openings at once. The three-note harmonic of the train departing (Dou-dou-dou). The meditative grid tiles of Place-d’Armes, the kinetic circles of Peel, the geometric floor mosaics of Lionel-Groulx, the deep limestone shadows of Place-des-Arts, or the brutalist concrete murals of Verdun.
Architecture is a vessel for memory. For the expat, these stations are not merely transit hubs; they are portals back to a specific era of their life.
The Zero-Distance Gift
We often struggle to transmit "home" to those who have departed. Shipping physical goods is slow, expensive, and carbon-heavy. But digital art respects no borders.
Metrographie's ongoing Série 01 collection was designed to live on the screens we stare at every day. Whether your loved one is in a high-rise in Hong Kong or a studio in London, installing the aesthetic of Montreal on their phone, monitor or HDTV is an instant tether back to the island. It's a way to say: "I know you miss this place. Here is a piece of it you can carry."
Digitally gift Montreal to them.
