LEGRAND julie, Glass, guest artist, Jardins invisibles

Sprouting stones, levitating stones, sliced stones, or stones in clouds... Julie Legrand offers us an evolving and poetic vision of the world where industrial artifacts and natural materials returned to a wild, autonomous state complement and enliven each other. 

“I like to combine glass with other materials, particularly ceramics, but also stones, everyday objects, and industrial elements. The power of glass lies in its ability to breathe life into the inert, to bring the sublime into the trivial, and to inject movement into sclerosis, rigidity, and confinement.” 

"For a long time, my work followed the twists and turns of my life, my relationship with time, love, grief, and the feelings of each moment. In recent years, a special relationship with plants has emerged, with their relationship to the landscape, to humans, and increasingly to their specific character of being at the very junction of heaven and earth. Drawing particles of light from high in the sky and capturing essential nutrients far below the surface of the ground, participating in the water cycle and capable of breaking down the hardest rocks, plants are fascinating beings that question and redefine the place of humans in space and time."