20 Menoc Hotel

Photography, 200 x 296.5 cm

Lois Weinberger's pioneering work has significantly contributed to the recent discussion on art and nature that began in the 1990s. His creations converge scientific and botanical knowledge, ecological reflections, sociological considerations, and his political engagement. In a rural environment, he started creating artworks using the waste of civilization in the 1970s. Later, he became interested in spontaneous vegetation that develops without any human intervention. "The way society treats plants is a mirror image of itself." Unconcerned with conventions, his artistic practice is marked by an interest in our relationship with the land. His interventions, full of poetry and sensitivity, question the relationships between plant, animal, and human life. "I do not practice art as a means to protect species," the artist asserts, "but my practices have that effect. I want a paradigm shift: to no longer intervene, but to let things happen."