until Sunday March 08 2020

CID: Center for Innovation and Design at Grand-Hornu
T : +32 (0)65 65 21 21
Rue Sainte-Louise, 82
7301 Hornu
Belgium

In the exhibition NATURE MORTE/NATURE VIVANTE organised at the CID, designers, architects and artists present intensive, practical or experimental research that questions the relationship between man and nature, calling in equal measure on ecology, science, our moral conscience and artistic creation.
Nature morte/Nature vivante reveals how much man’s ambiguous relationship with nature can be both perverse and inspiring
The French expression nature morte (literally ‘dead nature’) has been used to refer to still life, the field of painting that approaches nature from a sensual perspective and explicitly alludes to its fragility and ephemerality, and indirectly also to the vanity of human intervention on its composite elements. Over time, the term has extended to include any arrangement of inanimate objects organised in a certain fashion with a symbolic intention, which is meant to induce a poetic emotion. In our so-called “anthropocene” age, man’s unwarranted action is contributing to the impermanence of nature, or even its annihilation. With this sombre outlook, the term nature morte takes on even greater relevance.

NATURE MORTE/NATURE VIVANTE
From 24 November till 8 March, 2020