FEIPEL & BECHAMEIL – GRANDEUR NATURE – CHATEAU DE FONTAINEBLEAU

GRANDEUR NATURE
Fontainebleau, English Garden, France
11.05.2023 – 17.09.2023

Opening 13th May 2023
Curators : Christine Germain Donnat and Jean-Marc Dimanche

L’immortelle [The Immortal] address this question of allegiance to technology in a new light. The sculpture creates an artificial vegetal set in a natural environment of a public garden of planted by humankind. The work questions the capacity of our natural environment to develop strategies of resistance to the pressures brought to bear on it by industry. At the same time, the artwork proposes a fantastical scenario; a hybridization between nature and technology as opposed to the familiar nature/culture binary. Conceived as a plant of a different nature, its components are not plant-based but metallic. L’Immortelle [The Immortal], represents an ultra-organic unclassified tree which is at the crossroads of the plant species of this world. As fascinating as it is frightening, this plant rises overflowing with life and at the same time reveals itself to be immaculate by the silvery and shiny reflection of the artificial aluminum material from which it is created. It appears as an unreal figure of a ‘between two worlds’.

More informations: chateaudefontainebleau.fr/en/grandeur-nature/