Starting with a simple device that allows me to isolate small plant sculptures by giving them an improbable size through the simple artifice of photography, I got caught up in the game of art-fiction, imagining artists, their history, their desires and their emotions in a relatively near future.
It became a reflection on art in which I wonder: can a speech transform our vision of a work? I mix true and false, possible and probable, without distinction.
Science" and "the Word" have a great part in this work. These two elements are key ingredients in the times we live in. We believe one to be all-powerful and need the other to build stories that will make sense. However, both have their limits and ambiguities.
Finally, if it is successful, a work must be able to speak to us directly, without intermediary.
Nevertheless, if magicians of the word charm us with their writings and allow us to reflect, understand, marvel or add colors to our dreams, they are welcome.
Below, the introduction provided in the "Visitor's guide".
The VéGéTal exhibition brings together an international community of artists around a theme that, while it has always seduced man, has been transformed in recent years by biotechnology, offering new possibilities to creators, thus responding at the same time to the environmental challenges of our time: biodegradable materials, a manufacturing process that requires little energy and a decentralized implementation.
Bringing together drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, textile creations and design, the exhibition hosted by the Fondation Bourgine offers a sometimes wonderfully optimistic, sometimes poetic and playful look at the plant world.
Orchestrated by a team led by anthropologist Gabriel Karp and art historian Sarah Bloementhal, who has accompanied the Fondation Bourgine since its creation in 2040, the project is based on artists who have always had a special relationship with the plant world.
Orchestrated by a team led by anthropologist Gabriel Karp and art historian Sarah Bloementhal, who has accompanied the Fondation Bourgine since its creation in 2040, the project is based on artists who have always had a special relationship with the plant world.
The seven artists chosen for this exhibition come from Europe, Latin America and Asia.