{"id":394,"date":"2024-04-12T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:04:26","slug":"botanique-plastique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/botanique-plastique\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic botany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Botanique Plastique depicts an imaginary future in which plants, in order to adapt to an altered environment, have incorporated our waste into their biological structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series is inspired by 'La botanica parralela' (1976), a narrative in which Leo Lionni paints a hyperrealistic picture of a whole new flora, with each plant subject to academic references, stories, anecdotes, and drawings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sculptures in Botanique Plastique draw on the descriptions in this book to reproduce these fantastical plants, adding a flexible PVC structure that allows a glimpse of their internal anatomy made from recycled materials, mainly plastic waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Botanique Plastique thus opens a window onto a hypothetical future and invites us to think of our waste as objects, colors, shapes, and materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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L\u00e9p\u00e9laire, 2024, various plastics, fabric scraps, sewing thread, electrical wires, earth, 300x80x60cm, \u00a9 Nadia Ermakova<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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L\u00e9p\u00e9laire, details<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Emma Durovray paints, draws and sculpts imaginary plants that seem to come from the more or less near future.\n\nTheir shapes and colors are the result of a subtle mutation between the plant species we all know and the industrial waste that increasingly marks our landscapes. Inspired by L\u00e9o Lionni's Parallel botany (1976), in which he describes a fantastic natural world, the artist imagines a hybrid flora in tune with the current ecological catastrophe. At the crossroads between a utopian vision, where nature persists, and a dystopian one, where nature is altered by pollution, Emma Durovray's images depict an earthly future that is disrupted but possible.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Camille Martin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anaclea taludensis, 2024, metal, various plastics, sewing thread, earth, 60x100x60cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Anaclea taludensis, details<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Anaclea taludensis, details<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plastic botany, 2024, Various plastics, fabric scraps, sewing thread, 80x30x15cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plastic botany, details<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Botanique plastique t\u00e9moigne d\u2019un futur imaginaire o\u00f9 les plantes, pour s\u2019adapter \u00e0 un environnement alt\u00e9r\u00e9, auraient int\u00e9gr\u00e9 nos d\u00e9chets \u00e0 leur structure biologique. Elle s\u2019inspire de ‘La botanique parall\u00e8le’ (1976), r\u00e9cit dans lequel Leo Lionni dresse, sur un mod\u00e8le hyperr\u00e9aliste, le tableau complet d’une flore in\u00e9dite, chaque sujet v\u00e9g\u00e9tal faisant l’objet de r\u00e9f\u00e9rences universitaires, r\u00e9cits, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmadurovray.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}