Comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à aimer la révolution

constructed situation (floral installation (30 species), public park, landscape, beehives, website), 2023

A floral clock is installed throughout a public park, reinterpreting Carl von Linné’s concept of chronobiology. In 1751, the Swedish naturalist compiled a list of flowers that open and close at specific times of day. Linné suggested that it might be possible to tell time by observing the movement of their corollas. Planted from east to west, the installation invites visitors to wander through the park and observe these subtle movements. The work covers an area of 1,300 square meters and comprises 13,000 plants representing 30 different species.

Open to the landscape, the work overlooks the city, where the bell tower of Saint-Jean Cathedral—home to an astronomical clock—stands out. In the background, the horizon of the Jura massif situates the work within the landscape and its extra-human sense of time. This temporal dimension enters into dissonance with that of the flowers, as well as with that of the elusive bees, whose hive has been installed nearby. Comment j’ai appris à ne plus m’en faire et à aimer la révolution (How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Revolution) is a carefully constructed situation that considers the present as a superposition of multiple strata of perception and understanding.

In english, the title translates as How I stopped worrying and love the revolution

A dedicated website present the work : https://horologiumflorae.fr/

Full presentation pdf : pictures + texts (french)