In Ivry-sur-Seine, cultivate your garden in « a modern nature »-Liberation

Cultivate your garden. And sweep in front of his door. Sometimes the right exposures only hold a thread, in this patient way of twisting the gaits of life, ways of being in the world and the forms that translate them, works in short, which draw a fertile landscape. With « modern nature », Ivry Credac has gone to draw from the ground that has fueled its own history in the past twenty years. The British artist’s garden Derek Jarmanto which the art center devoted a decisive exhibition in 2021, served as a starting point for this hanging around, precisely, of the motif of the garden, space-time among others (in the same way as the White Cube or the library) regularly explored by visual artists. The exhibition devoted to the English artist who died of AIDS in 1994 mainly gave way to his large paints with slogan brushed with blood red in the last starts of his life.

This time, it is his garden, raised to the rank of ultimate art, in Dngeness, on lands deemed to be uncultivable in southeast England, which is the object of all attentions. A moving series of photographs allows you to measure this crazy gesture of resilience. «  » An act of faith and hope »Large of any religious dimension but q