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Cultural programming- exhibition curator

Artistic commission, Sixtine Dubly

 

"Flat bouquet", "Amaranth forest"

Artistic commission for "The Spirit begins and ends at the fingertips", 20 years of the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation, "Future, Ancient, Fugitive" Season, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

October 16 – November 10, 2019


In response to the request of Laurent Le Bon, curator of the exhibition L'Esprit commence et finit au bout des doigts, and Isabelle Cornaro, artist in charge of the spatial arrangement, to imagine a dialogue with the installation, Edward Steichen's Delphiniums, presented at the MoMA in New York in 1936, Sixtine Dubly imagined two floral sequences created with the florist Louis-Géraud Castor:

 

Bouquet plat, " While the introduction of the living and its pollens contravenes all the rules of preservation of the museum, Bouquet plat passes itself off as a still life by playing on mimicry with the flower in the history of painting. By questioning the very possibility of celebrating the living within the institution, the installation explores the hidden possibilities of museums to transform and weaves local agricultural links"

 

Amaranth forest, " She   forms a mysterious edge at the entrance to the large exhibition room. The installation evokes the close link between crafts and Flora, a material that is initially imaginary. Amaranth, little cultivated in France, is a South American plant rich in protein, which requires little water and pesticide. Its multi-millennial cultivation and its gene not modified by man questions the migratory heritage of plants and the virtuous mix of agricultural and artistic fields.

 

Opposite: Top. Flat bouquets: Dhalias, lilies, eucalyptus, Japanese iron and copper spike. Bottom. Amaranth forest: Amaranths, chicken wire, glass vase. The flowering plants picked for the installations were grown in the Ile de France in open ground and outside heated greenhouses and harvested in season.

Texts and photos cannot be reproduced - copyright SIxtine Dubly

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