Résonances – Collectif Solstice, 2024

The Resonances exhibit is based on the question of the analogical link between the “natural” and the “artificial” aspect of the Hortillonnages. How is the wild character of this natural environment intrinsically linked to its anthropisation?

The project aims to bring the natural structure of the spider’s web closer to other structures shaped by humans. The group has occupied a cabin on one of the islands where an artificial canvas has been created covering the surrounding area. Inspired by the products used by the fishermen, hunters and market gardeners who frequent the Hortillonnages, the exhibit is a complex assembly of ropes, landing nets, camouflage nets and vegetable gardens which recall the organic and irregular shape of the spider’s web.

Animated by the wind and disintegrated by time, the exhibit integrates into its natural environment and evolves with it and is witness to bad weather and the passage of time. Resonances thus offers a poetic metamorphosis of synthetic material into a natural pattern.

In addition to the link between Humanity and Nature, this project reveals an affinity between the web and the plant, two elements resistant to their natural environment in a similar way: the plant is maintained in the ground by its roots and the web clings to the points of attachment by its extremities.