Botany, or phytology, is the science that brings together all the disciplines studying plants.
Imagine that more than 550,000 species of plants have been identified to date. Botanists through their inventories, collections and classification methods thus contribute to a better knowledge and understanding of living organisms.
And as nature has always been a driving force in artistic creation, the elements, the fauna, the flora have contributed to diversifying the palettes of representation and made it possible to learn to describe in order to know better. For example, a legend says that Chinese writing was born from the observation of bird footprints in the sand. yes it’s true that Mandarin is hot. Artists also index data, to create other visual archives. In Mulhouse, Motoco is building a form of sensory ecosystem in this sense, bringing together professionals and explorers of the creative trades on the site of the former DMC textile factories. In a vast building of red bricks, and not in plants meet, confront many disciplines and multiple media as vectors of plastic, scenic and even musical expressions. To each his own unusual territories…
But it seemed natural to initiate a conversation between artists linked to Motoco and the public of the François Schneider Foundation, to bring together plants and water and to imagine the possible dialogues. The Botanica exhibition accepts the hypothesis from a here that explores elsewhere, those of a German forest, an indoor plant, a sprouted shoot, an African or Cantonese tree, a leaf of banana trees, thousand-year-old peat, blue grasses and other reflections of cold foliage suddenly projected into full light, it is to be seen until March 27.
The link to the exhibition on the Foundation’s website.