PHOTOBOOK / JARDIN DU RIESTHAL
Photobook
20 cm x 23 cm
Hard cover, 128 pages + 1 booklet
Text in french and english
by Jean-Christophe Bailly and Corinne Maury
Editor : mediapopeditions
Graphic design : Anne-Lise Broyer
Edition of 600
Last copies
Limited signed copies with an analog contact print 6X6cm made by Anne Immelé
ENG : “This series bears witness to the history of a site bringing together allotment gardens (previously called allotment gardens) and especially plot no. 100 which I take care of with my family and friends. The photos document the evolution of nature on the site, they take on a sensory dimension linked to summer weather and children's games. Thus the series relates the time of childhood in the gardens, considered as a kind of lost paradise. The relationship to the garden makes visible our relationship to the living world. Many gardeners try to have a perfect mastery of their culture, protecting their vegetables from all diseases, seeking productivity. For our part, in the collective adventure of plot number 100, we let nature act, overflow into a garden in motion, constantly reconfigured thanks to the wandering plants so beneficial to insects (such as borage, nigel, arugula wild, nettles, etc.), we let so-called wild plants coexist with cultivated plants. The ecological dimension of such a project is essential. The pleasure of time spent in these gardens is the best way to transmit gestures of culture, of relationship to the land to future generations. » Anne Immelé “The allotment's function of shelter or retreat is brought to its height here, but as if within a slide that would allow us each time to weigh the amount of escape induced by things. Fig tree leaves above tall grass where the sun forms a clear spot, smoke rising in the garden next door, a plot where protective veils held up by planks form a sort of involuntary Zen garden, brushwood, quantity of brushwood, temporary bouquets, ephemeral still lifes, spread all the time…” Jean-Christophe Bailly
FR : La fonction d’abri ou de repli du jardin ouvrier est ici portée à son comble, mais comme au sein d’une glissade qui nous permettrait à chaque fois de soupeser la quantité d’évasion induite par les choses. Des feuilles de figuier au dessus d’une herbe haute où le soleil forme une tache claire, une fumée qui monte dans le jardin d’à côté, une parcelle où des voiles protecteurs retenus par des planches forment une sorte de jardin zen involontaire, des broussailles, quantité de broussailles, de provisoires bouquets, d’éphémères natures mortes, tout le temps répandu".
Jean-Christophe Bailly, EXTRAIT DE "UNE LONGUE ÉLONGATION DU TEMPS"
texte inédit écrit suite à sa visite des jardins du Riesthal.
