Moving Gardens
Since 2017, the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, in the 14th arrondissement, has hosted ‘Jardins en mouvement’ (Moving Gardens), an exhibition allowing five architects to design a temporary structure in the 34-hectare park of the Cité internationale. This year, the competition has also been opened up to artists: launched last April, the 7th edition of ‘Jardins en mouvement’ is on display until 3 November 2024.
Rachel Sablé
Cyril Servettaz, Atelier du vivant, Semer les graines de la paix (Sowing the seeds of peace)
Inspired by Jean Giono’s L’homme qui plantait des arbres (1953), Cyril Servettaz’s installation refers to the context of the creation of the Cité internationale and its international scope. The five continents are embodied in these wooden boards, engraved with a quotation from Giono.
Raphaël Losfeld, Rudy Gardet, C8H13NO5
Made from shiitake mycelium bricks, this biodegradable structure, installed near the Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe and the Louis Pasteur pavilion, celebrates these micro-organisms and raises awareness of their usefulness. At the end of the festival, C8H13NO5 will become a soil improver for the Cité Internationale park.
Rudy Gardet, C8H13NO5
Matteo Tassan, Les contes de la forêt, Soro Bardudo
Matteo Tassan materialises the theme of man’s poisoning of the land, as in Julio Cortazar’s short story Les poisons (1956), from which he drew his inspiration. Each structure is based on a natural branch, which is then covered with plastic.
Joana Tomas et Vincent Rault, Muro Atelier, Kintsugi
Kintsugi, which means ‘joining with gold’ (kin is ‘gold’ and tsugi is ‘join’), is an ancestral Japanese craft technique for repairing broken ceramics using gold-tinted tree sap. The installation questions the repair of living things by applying the process to the scale of a tree and its roots.
Clarisse Cheung, Les reflets du vivant
Clarisse Cheung, for her part, focuses on the residents of the Cité, the very people who make it a place for sharing culture. Attached to a single wooden base, 400 metal rods unfurl water-resistant paper discs that sway in the wind, symbolising encounters.
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