What Plants Have to Tell Us

Celebrate, preserve, create anew
What do plants have to tell us? How are artists inspired by plants? In this time of climatic upheaval, of major challenges to agriculture and in an era where nature is ever more virtual or artificial, where do we stand in our fundamental relation to nature?

13 artists have been invited to share their conception of the plant world. This exhibit 'Ce que disent les plantes' which includes tributes to beauty, celebration of life, desire to preserve biodiversity given the impacts on ecosystems, takes us into the heart of non-human society and opens a wide window on the diversity of artistic approaches. They all shed light on current concerns, inviting us to cast aside our age-old anthropocentric view and reconnect with nature.

Twenty different works form an itinerary around three intermingling themes - celebrate, preserve, create anew - through many different formats where artificial intelligence makes an noticeable entry: drawings, video projections, films, sculptures, algorhythmic paintings, generative and interactive installations, virtual reality animation… Taking leaps in time, from 19th-century scientific herbariums to digital works by today's artists, the plant and living world draws us into its essential, sometimes disquieting existence.


With: Donatien AUBERT – Karl BLOSSFELDT – Betty BUI – Miguel CHEVALIER – Thierry COHEN – Jean COMANDON – Valère COSTES – Jérémy GRIFFAUD – Fabrice HYBER – Benjamin JUST – Sabrina RATTÉ – Max REICHMANN – Aurèce VETTIER.

VIDEOS – SCULPTURES – DRAWINGS – INSTALLATIONS – VIRTUAL REALITY.

No charge, no reservations

Guided visits:
Wednesday and Saturday at 4:30
3 € / person – no reservation

Café – bookshop:
Open during exhibition hours

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