10. Fantasia
Our first film memories often date back to our childhood. What happens when a film-buff grandfather brings over a VHS entitled Fantasia one night? It allows children to discover this 1940 cinematographic masterpiece with a sense of bone-tingling amazement, wonder, joy and laughter. On this day, and forever more, Fantasia will etch rare, unique, sensory, visual and musical moments into their memories.
The garden is inspired by the Fantasia sequence adapted from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. In this magical plant world filled with colour, dancing flowers and glittering water droplets, it is as if every element has come straight out of a dream or distant memory.
Each visitor can move around at their own pace, according to what the different spaces reawaken inside them. Some flowers appear to ‘look’ at you. Do you see the fairies flitting between the waterlilies or crouching inside anemones or hellebores?
The path is dotted with little living cabins, reminiscent of the secret hideouts we make as children, and where we invent entire new worlds. As sensory refuges, they become memory capsules. Inside, we can hear music playing subtly in the background… a delicate composition inspired by the original score owned by one of those child viewers, who has now grown up to become a musician. The melodies, familiar yet not, rekindle something hazy and fragile: a buried emotion, a forgotten image, a feeling. This soundscape acts as a memory trigger, without imposing, without telling – simply opening the doors inside us.
The garden pays tribute to the visual poetry of the Fantasia film, inviting each of us to retrace our first artistic emotions, our delicate connection to nature and suspended childhood moments.
DESIGNERS
Chloé and Maxime Wizla are brother and sister. Chloé Wizla is a landscape designer and visual artist. She has developed a cross-disciplinary approach combining the visual arts, civic participation and landscaping. A graduate of the Higher School of Fine Arts and the University of Lille, she cofounded a multidisciplinary collective in 2015, carrying out numerous socially-oriented artistic and architectural projects for almost ten years. Often through participatory workshops, she invited residents to take a fresh look at their environment and appropriate the areas they live in. In 2022, a period of questioning and experimentation went side by side with a change in her practice. Through various training courses, including permaculture design, landscape gradually established itself as a new field of creation and research. Her career path was enriched by a Higher Agricultural Technician Certificate (BTSA) in landscape design from the Higher School of Agriculture (ESA) in Angers in 2025. These days, she designs gardens and landscaped areas, with a special focus on sensitivity, living things and human aspects. Interested in multidisciplinary collaborations and projects where the landscape becomes a subject for expression and encounter, she seeks to forge links between artistic practices and landscape design in order to create places that tell stories, arouse emotion and invite contemplation.
Maxime Wizla is an artist-composer and sound technician from Lille. Fascinated from an early age by the musical experience in all its forms, and above all captivated by the rhythms and percussion explored during an academic career, it was his encounter with computer-assisted music (CAM) that opened the infinite doors of musical creation to him. These days, he sees composition as a language in its own right, capable of expressing emotions. He has developed a unique, powerful universe where sound and vision meet, drawing his inspiration from cinema, multimedia and video games alike, as well as from the rigour of classical music, the textures of the experimental electronic scene and the industrial and natural sounds of the everyday soundscape. In parallel with his tireless artistic research, he consolidated his approach with a diploma in sound engineering, obtained in 2014, so putting technical mastery at the service of limitless artistic expression. His works are constructed like sound narratives: through an unapologetic eclecticism, he invites the listener to an immersive experience, seeking both to tell a story and to awaken the imagination.