Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Arles, France
https://mrofoundation.org/
Crypto-Pharmacopoeia is a video, sound and olfactory installation. The project follows on from Antoine Renard's research in the Peruvian Amazon, where he has studied the way in which plants, through their perfumes and ritualised shamanic uses, influence the social organisation and identity construction of local populations. In a perspective of hybridisation and decolonisation of modernist thought, this research is situated between vegetalist animism and technological naturalism.
Grow Up is a programme of exhibitions, offering a cross-section of views on the movement of plants around the world. Cradle of biodiversity and environmental tensions, the twenty or so artists have a foothold in South America, Central America and Taiwan.
Each focus highlights the relationship between plants and humans, exploring the local relationships of a territory but also international ones. This geographical scale cuts across political, social and environmental narratives and issues, as well as post-colonial issues. From the Amazon, to Costa Rica, to Taiwan, the projects cross master plants, shamanism, drugs but also the sensitive exploration of a territory.
This relation to plants is central, they are sacred and at the heart of local cultures and beliefs, Grow up wishes to cultivate and increase awareness of our relationship with living things. Fotohaus is invited to extend this programme with Nature et Société.
Artists : ATOCHA Pepe, BELTON Teo et GOUPIL Florence, BRASEY Thomas, COP Steph et PÖRNECZI Bálint, CROZE Céline, DE LATTRE Mathias, DINIZ José, ESCANDÓN Arguiñe et GROSS Yann, HENRY Nicolas, HERNÁNDEZ BRICEÑO Andrea, LAGHOUATI-RASHWAN Samir, LATHUILLÈRE Marc, MORAES Gabriel, NISSEN Mads, PROTTI Tommaso, RENARD Antoine. HSU Cheng-Tang, KUO Che-Hsi, WU Chuan-Lun. ALBANO Verdiana, CHAPUIS Isabelle, SCHAEFER Philippine, LesAssociés, Docks Collective, fiVe collective
Curators : BEAUSSE Pascal, BOGET Christel, CHANG Meg, DEVIA BARCO Paola, MELLO Ioana, KEHRER Klaus
Art director : BASILETTI Florent
