«By making sensitivity a vehicle for complexity,
DISPERSION highlights the convergence between rational knowledge
and poetic imagination»
Starting from the observation of high soil temperatures on slag heaps in northern France, the artist investigates the colonisation of these particular ecosystems through the biological dispersal of exotic plant species. These seeds, arriving from elsewhere, take root and develop on mining soils, fostering biodiversity and driving global change.
Over six months, traversing the black earth, she searches for this shifting landscape, cataloguing and archiving the traces of this slow yet advancing biological time. Her fieldwork leads her to focus on the species Glaucium Flavum — the yellow horned-poppy. This highly toxic and symbolically charged plant was notably imported from the Mediterranean basin through population movements, a further embodiment of the inescapable mark that humans unceasingly impose upon their environment.
views of exhibitions from Vecteur - Circulation(s), 104 Paris - Les Brasseurs - CWB Paris
Documentation Credits
DISPERSION is part of the Watch This Space 10 biennial, a programme dedicated to emerging art, organised by the cross-border contemporary art network, 50° nord -
Contemporary Art Network.
Project carried out in collaboration with the TISBio laboratory and the University of Lille – Science and Technology, Cité scientifique.
