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How to create your own j’aiarden
The project is based on a book published in the 1960s by Massin (Maison & Travaux, etc.).
The project takes its title from the book, *How to Create Your Own Garden*, which presented the ideal garden to households of the time.
The sugarcoated descriptions depict a marvelous, fantasized, and controlled nature. Read in today’s context, the texts reveal the colonial and class relations that underpin the conception of the modern garden and continue to shape our imaginations and practices.
The structure of this narrative and its effects are undermined by a re-examination of the book and its texts.
(surrendering to the haunting)
This investigation explores the economic and traditional narrative systems that make meat a central element of French culture.
The investigation draws on practices that bridge the living and the dead, such as hunting and thanatopraxy.
Similarly, it explores the figure of the vampire, who seems capable of disrupting food and predatory hierarchies.
This approach consists of subverting—that is, turning upside down—the narratives surrounding meat and what they reveal about our ecological relationships.
As I thought the country was the land
Begun during an internship in Lisbon, this work is woven through an inherited relationship to Portugal—a country that has been present in his life since childhood, through gestures, fantasies, and gaps in memory.
Intertwined with these personal narratives is the unique history of urban agriculture in Lisbon. Traces of it still surface in the vegetation and uses of the Casal Vistoso urban park.
The investigation begins with the collection of plants, images, and stories that traverse and surround this park. It seeks to establish itself at the junctures of these relationships with the land and the country.
Iron-on drawings on dyed paper, A4
- on the right, a drawing by Hélène Mahieu
Inkjet prints on grass-based paper, A4
research conducted as part of the project
Comment réaliser son jardin (How to Create Your Own Garden)
Research on the theme of the bite, for the Carn Age project.