The moss embassy
current
The “Ambassade des Mousses” project centers on addressing the educational gap in public awareness about environmental issues by fostering deeper relationships between humans and non-charismatic life forms like mosses. Moss installations, supported by sculptural and electronic elements, will be placed in key sites globally, including botanical gardens. These installations allow visitors to engage directly with the environmental conditions that influence mosses, encouraging an intimate, sensory connection with these underappreciated plants. The project aims to counteract “plant blindness” and inspire a more nuanced understanding of non-human life, while promoting a shift in perspective from anthropocentrism to symbiosis, where the visitors can perceive mosses not just as simple plants but as essential indicators of environmental health.
Toward a fourth nature
2020-2024
This research-creation project explores the relationship between gardening and the Anthropocene by developing an innovative form of critical gardening. Inspired by Japanese and Mannerist gardens, it combines ecology and technology by creating “cybryonts”, semi-living entities that integrate bipolar mosses from circumpolar regions and cybernetic systems. These cybryonts, distributed between two circumpolar sites and a garden in Montreal, will regulate moss growth conditions in real time. The project questions the undecided nature of the Anthropocene, proposing a transdisciplinary reflection that combines social sciences, biology and multidisciplinary arts.
Cybryonts and the anthropocene
2019-2024
This project aims to critically explore contemporary forms of cybernetic ecologies through the creation of “cybryonts,” symbiotic entities merging mosses (bryophytes) with cybernetic sculptures. The goal is twofold: to problematize and explore the symbiosis between plants and robots within the Anthropocene, and to create systems aiming to better understand the life of mosses. We intend to work on creating the conditions for the existence of symbioses between bryophytes (mosses) and cybernetic sculptures that will serve as their support, tutor and documentalist, in short as a medium.