France
2024
6'
Summary
The Garden is an installation combining VR interactivity and real-time immersive projection. The Garden will immerse you in a fantastical garden filled with unique plant species. The tranquil and psychedelic atmosphere surrounds you as you discover that these plants are beautiful and serve as the backbone of a mysterious technological production. As the player, you’ve returned from holiday to take on the responsibility of caring for this production site. Your tasks include planting new vegetal units, nurturing the plants to ensure they flourish, and overall maintenance of the garden. This project evokes our relationship with nature and with living beings, which evolves with scientific innovations. It questions the ethical aspect of the artificialization of life, which is becoming an increasingly rationalized and productivist resource. What are we going to do with Nature at a time of advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and chemistry?
Galerie
Jérémy Griffaud
Director
Jérémy Griffaud is an artist who explores the question of the spectator in hybrid realities, through devices that blend the virtual and the real. Using scanned watercolors, video game engines, virtual reality headsets and monumental projections, he creates immersive, interactive environments. In his installations Enlarge Yourself and The Garden, for example, visitors become performers, and the work’s activation depends on their involvement. In The Origin of Things, visitors find themselves immersed in a psychedelic science-fiction universe that questions Man’s relationship with Nature. Jérémy holds a DNSEP option art (Master), obtained in 2017 at the Pavillon Bosio, the École Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques de la Ville de Monaco. Some of his artistic residencies have led him to work in Norway, Poland or Malaysia. In 2022, he was awarded an immersive writing grant from the CNC to help him write his project The Garden. In 2023, he was awarded the XR Farnese grant, which took him on a residency at Villa Medici, then winner of the SCAN Fund dedicated to digital art. The public has been able to experience his work in numerous artistic venues such as La Panacée in Montpellier during the Artpress 2022, the Shenzen Museum of Art, the Wang Xiaoi Art Museum, and the Four Domes Pavilion in Wroclaw. His short film Dungeon has won two awards at the Boden Film Festival in Sweden and the Emerald Peacock Peacock in St. Petersburg.