PAYSAGES EN EXIL

Installation for the national art event "Imaginez Maintenant"
01/07 to 04/07/2010
Hôpital de La Grave - Toulouse

Nicolas Dorval-Bory / Raphaël Bétillon

Music : Michael Andrews - Socks on ears

More on www.nicolasdorvalbory.com and www.raphaelbetillon.com


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 Clément :

"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.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• architecture
• temperature
• climate
• distortion
• landscape
• architect
• cloud
• mist
• fog
• greenhouse
• installation
• art
• event
• seedlings
• plants
• travel
• Toulouse
• Garonne
• CDC
• Imaginez Maintenant
• Gilles Clément
• Diller
• Scofidio
• blur
• sensorial
• Olafur
• Eliasson
• water
• invisible
• meteorological
• weather
• Grave
• hospital

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