Numerous artists and authors on the French and international scenes are concerned with the way we look at the natural world, and place living things at the heart of their work. While we seek contact with nature in both intimate and public settings, the distancing of the natural environment from our everyday lives facilitates an idealized, even artificial vision.
In the exhibition Dialogue(s) avec un brin d'herbe, the works presented offer new aesthetics, narratives and forms of empathy towards the mineral and organic world. The common thread running through the exhibition is the observation, listening and attention paid to even the most minute things that nature has to offer. At a time when we might see a paradox in our Western societies between the rapid expansion of technology and the existential desire to get closer to a world at its origin, some artists combine the scientific gesture with the production of images, where poetry and experience merge.

Curated by Natacha Seignolles and Aude Cartier