Biennale d’Art Contemporain - Exposition "Natures"

Following the success of the 2024 edition, this new edition invites the public to explore different visions of ‘Nature’ through installations, sculptures, paintings and photographs that engage with the identity of the venue.

Nature is presented here as a complex entity, encompassing the plant, mineral, animal, human and ephemeral realms. By shifting from ‘Nature’ to ‘Natures’, the exhibition highlights the diversity of perspectives on living things and on what connects us to them, sometimes without our even realising it.
The curatorial approach is based on the idea of nature as experienced, reconstructed, narrated or imagined. It draws on notions of memory, traces, disappearance, temporality and architecture, and places central importance on materials, gestures and forms of transformation. Nature is a complex entity, at once plant, mineral, animal, human and ephemeral.
It reveals itself in all its forms, both visible and invisible, tangible and intangible. This theme explores the interconnectivity of the concepts of nature, the natural and naturalness, by questioning what unites us with nature, without us even realising it.
I am not speaking merely of nature as an object of fascination, but of nature as an experience, as a reflection on humanity, memory, transformation and our relationship with that which is living, inert or has become a memory. The works will address human nature – that connection to the earth, the elements and the cycles of life – which we share unconsciously.
But they will also address naturalness, often neglected in our modern societies, and ancient nature, which is both a legacy and an echo of the almost total absence of humans in nature. By shifting the perspective from ‘Nature’ to ‘Natures’, this exhibition invites us to reflect on what is real, what is memory and what is reconstructed through art.
Through this approach, I aim to bring to light the connections to ‘natures’, by exploring how living materials, organic forms and narratives of transformation reveal a reinvented naturalness, a nature in motion, and a human nature resonating with the immutable.

Organised by the Culture à la folie association.

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