Paysages en exil

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PAYSAGES EN EXIL by Nicolas Dorval-Bory & Raphaël Bétillon

PAYSAGES EN EXIL by Nicolas Dorval-Bory & Raphaël Bétillon 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.

PAYSAGES EN EXIL by Nicolas Dorval-Bory & Raphaël Bétillon
PAYSAGES EN EXIL by Nicolas Dorval-Bory & Raphaël Bétillon
PAYSAGES EN EXIL by Nicolas Dorval-Bory & Raphaël Bétillon

Credits:
Installation built for the event Imaginez maintenant

Architects: Nicolas Dorval-Bory & Raphaël Bétillon
Assistant: Paula Gonzalez Balcarce
Lighting: Mairie de Toulouse + SG2B Montauban
Fog system: Dutrie
Greenhouse: PCEB Carcassone
Metal wiring structure: VERTEO
Additional electrical wiring: INEO Souillac
AWith the help of: ACB Banque Populaire

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