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Black Herbarium
2019.installation.performance.estampes.

The Black Herbarium presents a series of prints created by inking and pressing various plants gathered along roadsides and field edges. The resulting graphic imprint reveals subtle details and textures, often aestheticizing these overlooked and disregarded plants.

The installation also exposes the process behind the image — how the trace is made. After inking and pressing, the plants appear oiled, darkened, almost fossilized. They become inert, their material presence less alive than the delicate impressions left on paper. These blackened, spent plants are scattered on the ground, lying beside their own images.

The work invites reflection on the aestheticization of nature:
How do we choose what to preserve and protect?
What is the role of beauty in shaping our attention and care?
And more broadly, it questions the conditions of producing an artwork or an image: Must we beautify in order to protect? Must we destroy in order to preserve?

exhibition views, at Artagon live, Cité des arts de Montmartre, villa Radet. pictures ©Marie Genin
Thanks to Daniel Rovaletto, Laurent Charbonnier & Beaux-Arts de Digne for the printmaking press.