Plants

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

Vegetal life at the forefront of philosophical thought.

Bangalore's Lalbagh is a chronicle and anecdotal narrative of the city and its oldest garden—the Lalbagh Botanical Garden— where the author, Suresh Jayaram, has grown up around.

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.

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.

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.

A global and transdiciplinary study on botanics.

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.

A large collection of drawings (nearly 500 pages) documenting the artist's trip from Zurich to Japan through Siberia—with a special focus on books and trees.

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

Two films to better understand the atypical path and ideas of Gilles Clément, gardener, landscape architect, author, and theoretician of gardens as places of political utopia.

Publication gathering five conference performances, written in French and English, by the Franco-Korean duo of artists and researchers Ju Hyun Lee and Ludovic Burel, whose works combine installations, performances, and publications.

First monograph.

A Leibnizian reinterpretation of the traditional opposition between French geometric and English landscape gardens.

Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.

Free improvisations and phonographies in the forest, bundles of sounds, armfuls of dead leaves, arboreal rhythms, chestnut blasts.

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.

Artist's book.

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.

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.

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.

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

Artist's book (a tribute to the beauty of the greenhouse).