
Uchronie
- Publisher
- Filigranes Éditions / Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 978-2-35046-606-4
- Specifications
- hardcover
240 x 300 mm
144 pages
88 colour photographs
English / French
co-produced with Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
The exhibition Uchronie is about our relationship to nature, technology and the imaginaries of the future. It is an alternative version of history. What if life on earth had evolved in another way? What if animals were gifted with poetry? What if we could go to Mars while staying on Earth? In these parallel stories I wanted to rediscover the pleasure of childhood and play in order to stage two imaginaries of the future: space exploration with its share of dream and mystery, and the reinvention of the living through the prism of technology and poetry. It is a journey into a hybrid world oscillating between the real, the imaginary, history and anticipation, and an invitation to the aesthetic contemplation of alternative versions of our world. Uchronie is made up of photographs (Auctus animalis, Flora incognita, Post Natural History, Space utopia) and of other works (Haptique, Le Cerveau nuage, Le Coeur immortel, Les Fleurs de chair), each using mixed techniques: 3D printing, mosaic, sculpture, jewellery, music and film.