Hepatica fistulina #2, 2010

Plastic garden furniture + synthetic wood + paint / Variable dimention

Courances Castle, Ile-de-France.

Two monumental shelf fungi cling to resin outdoor pieces of furniture, such as a table, chairs and a bench. These mushrooms, also known as ox tongues, seem to grow from the furniture, expressing both the emergence of nature in its wildest, most uncontrollable guise, and the artificial, genetically modified side of a disproportionate, mutating nature. Either way, the growth of such an oversized mushroom can only be worrying. It is an alien body, a kind of tumour on the body of the object. Its monumental size makes it unreal. It bursts forth, as if exploding from the plastic matter. The garden furniture become a kind of cell carrying a virus it has generated and that is now feeding off it.