Fruits Prétendus

This installation is made up of tree trunks which are held horizontally by a system of metal stands. On their surface, the verdant moss is artificially fed by a network of pipes which, like a medical drip, follows the spreading of the branches from an aquarium filled with rainwater to keep the plant alive. This installation displays ceramics which are placed on the branches : they represent vegetable species in full mutation. We recognize the appearance of certain fruits and vegetables that are traditionally present on our stalls all year round such as zucchini, cucum-bers, corn, peppers, etc. Each ceramic assembly displays a unique hybridization of these multi flesh tones fruits.

These market gardening representations are symptomatic of an anthropocentric posture where humans establish themselves as the undisputed masters of life. These representations question the limits of their power of domestication and control. Between the artifice of ceramics that exacerbates geometries and colors and the sinuous organicity of trunks and mosses, this artwork invites us to rethink the computational ideology that our society systematically applies to its environment.

Like crossbreeding experiments and other genetic manipulations carried out in laboratories, the installation will thus guide the visitor into the heart of a joyful, disturbing and seductive biotechnological nature.