Installation for the national art event "Imaginez Maintenant"
01/07 to 04/07/2010
Hopital de La Grave - Toulouse
PAYSAGES EN EXIL seeks to create, along the hospital of La Grave in
Toulouse, an experimental journey in which the visitor is invited to
explore an unlikely landscape, a condensation of climates, a mix of
Natures from all over the world. The project finds its genesis in the
description of "wandering plants phenomenon" made by Gilles Clement :
?Plants travel. Grass mostly. They silently move in the way of the
winds. Nothing can stop the wind. By harvesting clouds, one would be
surprised to get imponderable seeds mixed with loess, fertile dusts. In
the sky yet unforeseeable landscapes are being designed. Chance
organizes the details, uses every possible vehicle to distribute the
species. Everything suits the transport, from ocean currents to shoe
soles. Most of the trip belongs to animals. Nature charters birds, berry
eaters, gardening ants, subversive and quiet sheeps, which fleece holds
fields and fields of seeds. And also man. Restless animal, always in
the move, free swapper of diversity.?
In an acclimatization space (a long agricultural greenhouse) are
prepared medicinal plants seedlings coming from the five continents.
Having "blindly" chosen one of them, the visitor continues its journey
and enters a thick cloud, a dense mist born from the spraying of the
Garonne river, on the Viguerie footbridge. At the end of this vaporous
trail, a surprising garden welcomes him, inviting him to plant the
seedling that he has carried so far.