Seeds of mutation

2024 – Analog/Digital (Mixed Media Photography

At once a source of food, a remedy and a producer of oxygen, plants are essential to life on this earth. They are also an integral part of our imagination and our most archaic memories. These fragmented but organic images act as a reminder of the vital role these beings play in the formation of our human psyche, in our understanding of the world and its structures, and in the building of a more sustainable collective and individual future.

The debt that humans owe to these beings, whose realities are often relegated to the background, is thus beyond measure. Through photography, I try to reveal, even if only ephemerally, these invisible and invisibilised realities in which we are intimately bathed.

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Cucurbita pepo
Photography 2024
© Vincent Jondeau

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Rosa hybrida
Photography 2024
© Vincent Jondeau


« The wilted flower and its rebirth symbolize the natural, perpetual, cyclical time of living beings. Yet, in an age when humans are destroying the planet and life itself, this balance is threatened by extinction. This image embodies a phantasmatic portrait of humanity taking responsibility for the earth’s memory and the debt it owes to living beings and plants. The wilted petals of a flower give rise to a new face: that of humanity journeying toward the symbiocene era. »


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