20 Menoc Hotel

Silent video, duration 17 min 40

This fixed shot film shows an almond tree in flower uprooted and hanging from a rope, slowly rotating on itself horizontally. The rope is placed as close as possible to the roots, allowing the tree to find its point of balance while revealing the dividing line between the place where the trunk disappears underground and where it fits into the landscape that delimits the horizon line on the screen. The uprooting of the tree, whose flowers bear witness to its rebirth, causes a critical situation. The almond tree in flower is inert and in movement, making the dividing line between death and life difficult to establish. A captive tree, tied above the ground, like a trophy. Jardin égaré encourages the viewer to virtually rotate around the moving tree, since the artist initiates a very slow rotating movement which converts the physical movement into plastic language. If the artist often defines himself as a sculptor, his work, mixed with muted violence, is shot through with research into movement and the apprehension of space.