Fluide, Etienne Rey

Fluide explores the French garden and its relationship between nature and culture.. The in situ installation takes Francis Ponge's text Végétation as its starting point, as a significant element in the earth-sky link. The work evokes a perfectly deformable material environment. Made up of thousands of segmented modules, it draws structures and creates connections between vegetation and vacant space, like invisible links revealed.
Installation in situ, 2022, programmed and produced by Arts Vivants Aix.

VIEW ON GARDEN

Eugénie Denarnaud will talk about the 18th-century orthogonal garden and how it resonates with that of Caumont - Centre d'Art. Based on artist Étienne Rey's installation in the parterre of the Caumont garden, she will question the artist's in-situ gesture and the meaning of an intervention in a so-called "French garden".

Echoing this, Alain Chareyre-Méjan will situate the place that the garden plays in the history of philosophy and ask: "Tell me which garden you like, and I'll tell you which philosopher you are...".