Plants

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.

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 collection of photos by the French designer condescending a topographic analysis of the Cevennes forests as part of a research project on their revitalization.

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.

This book is dedicated to the work of Marcin Rusak, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.

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.

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

A poetic narrative in which the author, sound artist Émilie Mouchous, investigates her own psyche through an exploration of plants. The artist's first publication features a hyperlink to download the soundtrack of the poem, an 18-minute piece with voice and synthesizers.

Catalogue of the second edition of Lulennial, a biennial organized in the small space of gallery Lulu, in Mexico City. The twenty-two artists invited by curators Chris Sharp and Andrew Berardini met around one subject matter: fruit.

Botanical trajectories and symbolic dimensions of Merano's palm trees (artist's book).

Luca Trevisiani stamps images derived from antique herbaria and design magazines on objects with heterogeneous surfaces (textiles, clothing, tropical leaves, minerals).

First monograph.

Michel Blazy's Urban Safari, discovering extraordinary houseplants (and their owners).

Drawing upon the classic notion that flowers are imbued with meanings and a specific set of semantics with idealistic and hopeful connotations, Sicily-based artist Aleksandra Mir has edited and revised the botanical code in a more socially relevant fashion.

Exhibition catalogue on the theme of flowers.

First monograph.

Soil Affinities explores the connections of (post)colonial history and the movement of plants for agriculture, from Aubervilliers, a northern suburb of Paris, to formerly French West Africa (Mali and Senegal). This publication and Uriel Orlow's eponymous project retrace the lines and networks of earthly connections between plants and humans through images, maps, texts, and interviews conducted in France, Senegal, and Mali over the span of two years.

In 2020, Caroline Rennequin painted 301 flowers. A series of gouaches on hand-made Indian cotton paper reproduced entirely in this book.

This unedited issue of Spectre invites contemporary artists to share their interpretation of vegetal trauma.

This publication emerges from Uriel Orlow's Theatrum Botanicum (2015–18), a multi-faceted project encompassing film, sound, photography, and installation, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics, in South Africa and Europe. It brings together documents on the project, and a series of commissioned essays.