The Peaux de fleur series continues work begun in 2018 with cognitively impaired elderly people, children, blobs - physarum polycephalum - and the floral environment of the La Petite Escalère garden. It is part of my reflections on the materiality of the relationship between humans and non-humans, reduced to a shared space.
In the Parc de la Villette, I extended my experiments in hybridisation by exploring the material possibilities of two worlds separated by a high palisade: on one side, Le Jardin Passager - created by Gilles Clément in 2000 - and on the other, the attractions, rides and fairground stalls.
With the help of gardeners Nicolas Boehm and Antoine Chaumeil, we picked flowers with unusual properties (Misery, Damask Nigella, Perforated St John's Wort, Evening Primrose, Clary Sage, Edible Mallow, etc.), which I moulded with agar in the fairground containers (ice cream cones, chip trays, etc.), sprinkling the watery matter with glitter. The summer heat evaporated the water - the materials fused together - giving rise to new diaphanous textures, moults and metamorphoses.