Scenography Jardin Rouge Festival Paris

Scenography and research exhibition, Jardin Rouge festival, Paris, 2025

This exhibition and the scenography of the festival are part of a series of works that emerged from an ongoing artistic research on the tension between human architecture and organic growth, movements and forms.

“This journey starts in Paris.
A river finds its way through a landscape in motion. Water washes over the banks every now and then, plants are nourished by the rich sediment and the surrounding forest is home to countless animals. A group of hunter-gatherers finds a place to rest next to the river.
Much later, a group of fishermen discovers an island in the river Seine. They construct a bridge, start building a settlement and use the river to transport goods. The settlement is growing; walls rise and paths are paved.
It’s 2025 and you are walking through a street at night. It is dark but street lanterns are improving your sight. It’s cold but when you arrive in your house the heater is burning to warm you. It starts raining, you hear drops tapping against the windows and flowing down the drainpipe, into the sewer, into the Seine. In the morning the sun starts to light up the piece of earth where you are but the beams are blocked by your curtains and you continue to sleep.“

Humans create linear structures in an organic landscape that flows, slides, erodes, blows and breaks. How does this linearity relate to those dynamic movements?
In an urban environment, things like paved streets, buildings, street lanterns and the sewer form a static and controlled environment which excludes many moving phenomena. How do we experience these moving phenomena in our daily urban lives?