The equation of flowers and gardens and literature with bourgeois excess is by now familiar: decadent and decorative trappings for those who no longer have to worry about daily subsistence. Class guilt, false or otherwise, is not the only misgiving to haunt the would-be plant lover. What issues from this twinning, on deeply engrained associative levels, is a marginalisation of plants and women that shifts between pedestalised reification, demonisation, oppression and outright exclusion.
Can the love of plants ever be truly progressive? This happened time and again, even when I offered up the particular references I was clumsily trying to comment on, or critique. Critique that is aesthetically pleasing, they seemed to be trying to school me, is automatically forfeited, voided of critical capacity. My sketchbooks were filled with scraps and anecdotes.
Among them: accounts of plants put on trial alongside women during witch hunts, because they were believed to be evil co-conspirators; the accusation of Joan of Arc for wearing a mandrake on her chest; the widespread burning of women for possessing mandrakes, which they were accused of bathing, clothing and feeding. If women were too busy tending to their gardens, or growing plants known to induce abortion, who would raise the next generation of good Christian men?
It seemed entirely logical to the father of taxonomy that plants, created by God, would perfectly mirror human sexuality as he believed it was intended to be: the monogamy of man and wife. More recently, scholar Amy M. These precedents set the stage for the Victorian era, when the florification of female sexuality reached its zenith. But flowers can also represent a form of oppression and censorship, a secret language, a wink and a punch all in one.
Reserveer tickets online. Doe een keer per maand mee aan een leuke workshop op woensdagmiddag, speciaal voor Verwende Nesten. Hoogtij takes place four times a year on Friday evenings in the city centre of The Hague.
Tijdens de Betovering organiseert Nest twee workshops voor kinderen rondom de geheime taal van bloemen. Nest en Zaal 3 presenteren op 18 en 19 december het Bloemenarrangement. In Zaal 3 staat de voorstelling Bloemenduel. Taal: nl en. Programma Tentoonstellingen Agenda Reviews. Educatie Rondleidingen Verwend Nest Educatie. Just as values are embodied in natural things, supposedly innocuous flowers take on the aura of powerful and destructive weapons in the hands of the artist.
Camille Henrot puts in place a lapidary language whose phrasing liberates. In reality, these ikebana lead us to the heart of a principal of resistance violently opposed to all forms of power and authority: the pleasure principal.
Born in , Camille Henrot lives and works in Paris.
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