Joanes Simon-Perret
Abandoned Building, Riga, European capital of cultur 2014.
Year of production: 2014
The "galas paviljons" of Matissa Market is an unused building since several years. Gradually the walls crashed, the roof leaks, the windows fall. Looking closely, I see that more than 20 species of plants were installed in the building. Mosses, grasses, youngs threes are growing on the walls and cracks of the building. Nature begins to reassert itself over the city.
So I decided to build this model of "Galas Pavijons" with brittle materials such as cardboard, paper, and install some seeds of different species. The quick growth of the plants transform the model and change the time and sizes scalls. The bean plant which is grown in a week becomes a three through a roof and cress seeds become bushes.
Through this installation, the slow movement of nature is recreated in accelerated and invites us to ask ourselves about the place that we give to plants in our life.