Artistic installation in the Abbey of Fontevraud
The installation at the Abbey of Fontevraud is situated on an existing garden: elevated planters made of corten steel with unusual shapes. Our proposal is a temporary substitution for this garden, or rather for its image. A grassy, undulating landscape covers and transforms it. This installation plays with the relationship between fantasy, image, and the material reality of its implementation through an act that is counter to nature. The result is a strange presence that maintains an ambiguous relationship with the garden it covers and the abbey with its multiple roofs that shelter it.
The installation at the Abbey of Fontevraud is situated on an existing garden: elevated planters made of corten steel with unusual shapes. Our proposal is a temporary substitution for this garden, or rather for its image. A grassy, undulating landscape covers and transforms it. This installation plays with the relationship between fantasy, image, and the material reality of its implementation through an act that is counter to nature. The result is a strange presence that maintains an ambiguous relationship with the garden it covers and the abbey with its multiple roofs that shelter it.
Object of the intervention
Design and installation of a vegetative topography (scaffolding, netting, stipas)
Project owner
Centre Culturel de l’Ouest – Abbaye royale de Fontevraud
Location
Fontevraud l'Abbaye (49)
Team
ATELIER JEAN CHEVALIER paysagiste
Budget/Area
38k€ / 2200m2
Status
Livré
Year
2023