Plants

The first documentary account by artist, curator and publisher Ludovic Burel, Le laboratoire de fermentation (The fermentation laboratory) retraces four years of investigation, carried out on several continents, into wild and cultivated plants and the means of fermenting them, questioning our relationship to both the human (individual and society) and the non-human (plant and other).

Primarily intended as a reference work for those in charge of regenerative gardening training courses in Morocco, this ecological gardening guide, written under the direction of Carey Duncan in collaboration with the Bouregreg Med-O-Med Gardening School in Salé (FUNCI), is aimed at both professional gardeners and experienced amateurs.

A project by the Peruvian artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca about the different gazes and discussions around the coca leaf, with the objective to reconsider it as a multidimensional and historical actor.

Ingo Giezendanner's wild herbarium.

Jacopo Benassi brings together in this "private" edition 40 color photographs of the garden of his friends Stella and Pino perched on a ledge between the sea and the sky, in his Liguria land.

Monograph dedicated to Caroline Rennequin's flower paintings (gouaches on Indian paper), with texts by Yves Michaud and Émilie Ovaere-Corthay.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

A hybrid between travel chronicle and studio process notebook, this artist book tracks the construction of a failed modernist fantasy in the island of La Palma and the hallucinogenic properties of wild plants that grow across the Canary Islands.

An archive of sounds for interspecies communication, stemming from Renato Leotta's research on Posidonia Oceanica, an underwater plant endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.

A new literary work by Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, Mauvaises herbes is an alphabetical list of undesirable plants, a poetic lexicon of Quebec flora, where composite and colorful terms accumulate in an incessant enumeration.

Louise Bourgeois' flowers series, painted in gouache on paper.

First monograph.

A project by artist Fatma Bucak that considers the relationships between political violence, environmental destruction, and climate change.

Diario de Plantas presents 724 drawings made by Gabriel Orozco in Tokyo and Acapulco on 33 notebooks between November 9, 2021, and April 20, 2022 (two volumes in one slipcase).

Tucker Nichols' flowers paintings.

An artistic and literary project based on the emblematic and ambiguous plant figure of the bramble.

This artist's book explores the diverse reference system of forms and materials, plants, animals and other subjects out of which Claudia Comte develops her biomorphic sculptures.

The Order of Things presents about a hundred analog photographs of landscaped gardens around houses and estates in the Swiss Canton of Valais and in Romandy, the western, French-speaking part of Switzerland.

An ecological, urban and architectural anatomy inspired by Tunisia's palms and eucalyptus trees: a conceptual, committed and critical gesture of renovation of Tunis' municipal greenhouse at the Parc du Belvédère, which questions the very same definition of an artwork, the place of the artist and the role of cultural institutions.

A long-term project by the Italian artist and agroecologist on rethinking the relationship with the earth, both from the point of view of humans and plants.

A new and expanded edition of the reference flora, the result of 20 years of studies and floristic surveys on a multitude of urban wastelands, allowing, through 600 photographs and 800 original drawings, to recognize and name some 300 silent plants that we come across every day: a methodical herbarium of the wastelands which constitutes a true guide to biodiversity, beautiful and playful, accessible and rigorous..

Publication dedicated to the Jardin aux habitant·es, a work by the artist Robert Milin produced in collaboration with volunteers for the opening of the Palais de Tokyo, a community garden that brings together, since 2002, amateur gardeners, who are members of an association.

An overview of the French mixed media artist's work, engaged with historical and found imagery.

This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.

How urban spaces are finding new life through communities of gardeners, cooks, ceramicists, and creatives.

Vegetal life at the forefront of philosophical thought.

Both a cinematographic work diary, a travel diary and a private diary, Climatic Species is made up of multiple stories where each thread unfurls at its own rhythm.

First monograph.

First monograph, presenting four perennial works created by Christine Maigne as part of public and private commissions and which are organically articulated to the ground.

First monograph.

David Hominal breathes new vitality into the exercise of still life, through a series of paintings of dead leaves.

Retrospective monograph.

A photographic project about the history and repercussions of the life of German botanist and gardener Georg August Zenker.

French designer Gregory Granados imagines the ideal shape of a vase/flower pot for a dancing plant. His discreet and subtle research questions the connection between the shaping of a given material and the sound it emits, investigating the acoustic properties of glass.

This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.

Olaf Holzapfel's textile works made from cactus fibre together with a family of traditional weavers from Argentina.

The consideration of flowers as an object of contemporary design (a curatorial exploration).

Vegetal life at the forefront of philosophical thought.

The 65th issue of Spike, devoted to the theme of plants.

Between an artist's book, an essay and a catalogue, this publication explores the notion of “installation” in the appropriation strategy developed by the now fictional artist Ludovic Chemarin©, through the conceptual figure of the Kentia palm.

A collective and transdisciplinary study of the representation of plants and their powers to reflect on the question of animation, cinema, photography and, more broadly, image, in the Anthropocene era and in the context of the "vegetal turn" at work in the human sciences as well as in contemporary art.

Of plants and men.