Center for the Arts in Enghien-les-Bains
Show Garden
Instillation and transdisciplinary garden imagined by Alexandra Grimal (composition, text, voice) in collaboration with Benjamin Lévy (computer music director), Antonia Fritche (visual artist and videographer), David Simonson (landscape designer) and Céline Grangey (sound engineer). The monkey in the abstract garden project is the winner of the ADAMI-Centre des arts 2019-2020 creative residency.
The suspended and inverted garden evokes an abstract universe where the spectators see the vegetation from a singular point of view. Like an insect collecting pollen? like an ant descending from a tree to walk through a field of plants? does the lush vegetation suggest that we could be in the jungle? The relationship to nature reversed, would the two musicians have fallen from this Earth that we observe from below?
Courtesy of landscape designer Gilles Clément for texts taken from his book Le Jardin en mouvement (2017, Sens & Tonka).
INFORMATION
Client : Arts Center of Enghien-les-Bains (95)
Surface area : 150 m² (150 sq.m)
Amount of work : 10 000 m² (10 000 sq.ft.)
Schedule : studies 2019 - creation July 2021
Team : Alexandre Grimal and kido
Coproduction kido, Césaré Centre National de Création Musicale de Reims, la scène nationale d'Orléans, tirsis, le Centre des Arts, la Scène Conventionnée d'Intérêt National Art & Création, l'ADAMI, la DRAC Île-de-France et la Spedidam
Categories : indoor garden, plant scenography, live performance, creation, rewilding