"Rousseau's Garden"
"Arbres et Lumières" Festival. © 2007.
Rousseau’s Island. Geneva.
Switzerland.
Scaffolding structures (max. Height 6M),
fluorescents bulbs, tulles, artificial flowers,
Flower-pots, spotlights. Island’s Dimensions :Height of trees : 28 M.
Surface : 1336 square meters.
The island is a former shipyard. Nowadays
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s statue stands on it.
The French/Swiss philosopher was a
passionate of Botany.
Curators:
Marie-Eve Knoerle and Jean-Claude
Deschamps.
« Rousseau's garden »
This environmental installation makes reference
to
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau's passion for
botany and nature.
Dimitri Xenakis and Maro Avrabou deliberately
combine
artificial
materials and flowers with the
existing vegetation.
Fourteen luminous volumes are wrapped in
transparent
and coloured fabrics, filled
with
synthetic
plants
in
plastic flowerpots.
The particular light-design gives an impression of
industrial
greenhouses as well as an aspect of
laboratory.
This artwork explores the relative limits betwen
industry,
science and nature.
© 2007
