| Text by Michel François, Psycho-garden
Michel François, 44, one of the most African-influenced Belgian artists, presents an intervention at the Fundació Miró called Psycho-garden.
In the tradition of the philosophical gardens of the Enlightenment, but with a more sexual and vitalist interpretation, François will spray water dust onto a large Lebanese cedar tree in front of the Fundació Miró’s building, above Calder’s sculpture. The tree will be surrounded by a halo of light and will interact with the path of the summer sun. For the artist, it’s about enhancing every element of the tree and transforming it into a mental image. Everything becomes excessive: the tree’s relationship with water, with the sun, with the viewer, with the architecture…
Michel François’s work tracks with irony and tenderness – while giving them a discursive (rather than narrative) status – the contradictions that lend charm to our daily lives, or, more precisely, those that give life its flavour. The collection of sculptures, interventions, photos and videos forms a work in perpetual metamorphosis and self-regeneration, without any hierarchy between the different disciplines or any inhibiting temporal structure. |
