2013 edition - Gardens of sensations

12. Derrière l’armoire

published at 17/10/2017

"Derrière l’armoire", Festival des Jardins 2013 - © E. Sander

Have you already bent down to look at what grows at your feet? This world, so small that it is often overlooked? What if the insignificant became giant, and even troubling?

Walk through this old wardrobe then and into an immoderate garden.

Here, the illusions throw your bearings into disarray: the way forward expands, disappears and the plant magic casts its spell to make you SMALLER and Smaller and smaller. With each step you take the vegetation gets taller and thicker. The leaves echo each other and some plants – which were tiny at the entrance – seem bizarrely to have grown. All of these correspondences toy with your vision and the things around us become almost supernatural in their excess.

DESIGNERS

Sophie BERTRAND, Simon CATHELAIN, Alice DESBOIS, Jeanne ROCHE and Maxime SOENS, students

NATIONAL HIGHER SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPING, VERSAILLES

FRANCE

Maxime Soens is a passionate gardener currently in his 3rd year at the National Higher School of Landscaping in Versailles, training to be a government qualified landscape architect. Previously, he attended a preparatory class at Antibes’ School of Landscaping, and obtained a Higher Technical Certificate in Landscape Architecture at Nîmes.

Sophie Bertrand is a proud native of Bourbonnais who kept three years’ worth of pencils well sharpened and busy at the Saint-Etienne School of Architecture before going on to continue her studies at the National Higher School of Landscaping in Versailles.

Simon Cathelain enrolled in the National Higher School of Landscaping in Versailles after having spent two years at the School of Horticulture in Breuil.

Jeanne Roche is bursting with self-confidence and began her career in the field of event and cultural production. She then turned to landscaping and enrolled at the National Higher School of Landscaping in Versailles.

Alice Desbois is a great reader who, after starting off in preparatory classes in literature, changed course and took up geography – and it’s no more than a step from maps to landscapes!

DESIGNERS

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