7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in
Edition of 10
This exhibition grows from a pressing question: what might plants teach us about living together in a world on fire?
It gathers two long-term photographic gestures rooted in sites of environmental violence, zones of anthropogenic fire, contamination, and ongoing transformation, where industrial and nuclear histories entangle with disrupted ecosystems and precarious life-worlds. From Chernobyl Herbarium, composed with flora from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, to Flowers of Fire, formed among the charred and contaminated earth of the Terra dei Fuochi in southern Italy, I follow plants as guides learning from ways they make worlds even amid the ruins. (Anaïs Tondeur, 2025)
This exhibition grows from a pressing question: what might plants teach us about living together in a world on fire?
It gathers two long-term photographic gestures rooted in sites of environmental violence, zones of anthropogenic fire, contamination, and ongoing transformation, where industrial and nuclear histories entangle with disrupted ecosystems and precarious life-worlds. From Chernobyl Herbarium, composed with flora from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, to Flowers of Fire, formed among the charred and contaminated earth of the Terra dei Fuochi in southern Italy, I follow plants as guides learning from ways they make worlds even amid the ruins. (Anaïs Tondeur, 2025)
Anaïs Tondeur (born 1985, France) trained at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art , London. Working at the intersection of art, science, ecological thinking and poetics, she has taken part in research, residencies and exhibitions that resonate with her inquiry into terrestrial materialities.