Talk at the auditorium, from 7pm to 8pm.
Book Signing at the bookshop from 8pm to 8:30pm.
The reservation is mandatory via the online ticketing service – events section.
Tickets for the event also give access to the exhibitions.
The conversation will be held in English, translated in French consecutively.
The talk will focus on Sam Falls’ works presented in the exhibition, and will allow the audience to discover his creative process.
Investigating the mutability of perception, Sam Falls’s artworks shift between installations, paintings, photographs, and sculptures. He examines entropy, perception, representation, time, and the artistic process. Over the last several years, Falls has developed several bodies of work based on the natural processes of decomposition and deterioration, particularly the long-term effects of sunlight and weather.
He often works outdoors, creating his paintings by placing plants on the canvas, spraying them with pigments, and exposing them to the elements for long periods. The organic material, which leaves behind silhouettes in negative, preserves the traces of the place and time of his creations.
His more recent works with ceramics incorporate instant photographs: the plants that appear on the prints are applied to the damp clay, then glazed. Like fossils, these works preserve the memory of plant species that are in danger of becoming extinct as a result of the environmental crisis.
The exhibition Science/Fiction – A Non-History of Plants retraces the visual history of plants through art, technology, and science from the nineteenth century to the present day, not in a chronological way, but through two conceptual frameworks: scientific and fictional. Bringing together more than 40 artists from different periods and nationalities, this exhibition compares historical photographic works with creations of contemporary artists.
At the end of the talk, Sam Falls will sign his books at the MEP bookshop from 8pm.
You cannot make it? Order your signed book from our bookshop’s website!
