Miguel Chevalier's work questions nature in the age of the artificial. Following an approach initiated in the late 1990s, based on the observation of the plant kingdom and its imaginative transposition into the digital universe, Miguel Chevalier has created various virtual herbariums. Composed of different virtual seeds, these allow him, like a landscape designer, to create gardens of light.
On an LCD screen, strange imaginary flowers Bella Donna, from the virtual herbarium Fractal Flowers, begin to grow. These virtual flowers evolve at the boundary of four worlds: vegetal, mineral, animal, and robotic.
Born from digital germination, the flowers reveal shapes pushed to the extreme limits of geometric abstraction. Like the cycle of life, the flowers emerge, unfold into incredible shapes, ripple in the flow of an imperceptible virtual wind, before vanishing to make way for others.
The flowers possess both a striking monumentality due to their geometric forms and an ephemeral quality as they evaporate into the air. These "living" paintings exert a captivating fascination over the viewer. The works hypnotize the gaze in a dazzling dialectic between the real and the virtual. This botanical ballet evokes a meditative sensation.