Plants

 
 
Ximena Garrido-Lecca - Botanical Readings / Lecturas Botánicas - Erythroxylum Coca
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
forthcoming
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.
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
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.
Álvaro Urbano - Acto I: La Eterna Adolescencia
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
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.
Renato Leotta - Ondina (vinyl LP + booklet)
2024
Nero
An archive of sounds for interspecies communication, stemming from Renato Leotta's research on Posidonia Oceanica, an underwater plant endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.
Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf - Mauvaises herbes
2024
French edition
Le laps
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 - Les Fleurs
2023
no text
Nieves
Louise Bourgeois' flowers series, painted in gouache on paper.
Fatma Bucak - While the Dust Quickly Falls
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A project by artist Fatma Bucak that considers the relationships between political violence, environmental destruction, and climate change.
Gabriel Orozco - Diario de Plantas (2 volumes)
2023
no text
Zolo Press
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
2023
no text
Nieves
Tucker Nichols' flowers paintings.
Jan Kopp - Ronce
2023
French edition
Naima
An artistic and literary project based on the emblematic and ambiguous plant figure of the bramble.
Claudia Comte - After Nature - Cacti, Corals and Leaves
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
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.
Nicolas Faure - The Order of Things
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
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.
Farah Khelil - Effet de serre
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bao Books
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.
Luigi Coppola - Ex Situ - Compatible with life – Plants for a word waiting to germinate
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
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.
Marie Pellaton - Flore des friches urbaines
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
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..
Robert Milin - Le Jardin aux habitant·es
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
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.
Julien Audebert -
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of the French mixed media artist's work, engaged with historical and found imagery.
Myr Muratet - Manuel d\'écologie urbaine
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Architecture
This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.
From the Pot to the Earth at Rochester Square - A composition of artworks, dinners, words and people
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
How urban spaces are finding new life through communities of gardeners, cooks, ceramicists, and creatives.
Michael Marder - La pensée végétale - Une philosophie de la vie des plantes
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Vegetal life at the forefront of philosophical thought.
Christiane Geoffroy - Climatic Species
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Artist's books
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.
Christophe Robe -
2022
French edition
The Drawer - Books
First monograph.
Christine Maigne - Rhizome Cupules Eclosion - Permanent displays in public spaces
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Strandflat
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.
Cécile Beau - Aoriste
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Is-Land
First monograph.
David Hominal - Still Life / Les feuilles mortes - 2020-2021
2022
no text
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
David Hominal breathes new vitality into the exercise of still life, through a series of paintings of dead leaves.
Gabriela Albergaria - Nature Abhors a Straight Line
2021
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Retrospective monograph.
Yana Wernicke - Zenker
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic project about the history and repercussions of the life of German botanist and gardener Georg August Zenker.
Grégory Granados - Cahier du Cirva
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cirva
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.
Myr Muratet - Manual of Urban Ecology
2021
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.
Olaf Holzapfel - Textile
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Olaf Holzapfel's textile works made from cactus fibre together with a family of traditional weavers from Argentina.
Offrir des fleurs
2021
French edition
Pli
The consideration of flowers as an object of contemporary design (a curatorial exploration).
Michael Marder - La pensée végétale - Une philosophie de la vie des plantes
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Vegetal life at the forefront of philosophical thought.
Marcin Rusak - Encoded Symbols
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
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.
Spike - Plants
2020
English edition
Spike
currently out of stock
The 65th issue of Spike, devoted to the theme of plants.
 Ludovic Chemarin© - Kentia
2020
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
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.
Puissance du végétal et cinéma animiste - La vitalité révélée par la technique
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
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.
Uriel Orlow - Conversing With Leaves
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
Of plants and men.
Myr Muratet - Manuel d\'écologie urbaine
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Architecture
This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.
Uriel Orlow - Soil Affinities
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
currently out of stock
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.
Émilie Mouchous - D\'un érotisme botanique
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le laps
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.
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