2024 – Digital (Video Installation ; Mixed Media Photography) / Ostkreuzschule
The disappearance of living species is accelerating at the rate of the various industrial revolutions. There is an urgent need to slow down, if only to grasp the current catastrophe. Two centuries ago, the aim was to discover new species. In present time, we record the ongoing and future extinctions. Whether threatened or witnessed, how are the remaining beings affected by this profound mutation? And what imaginaries could we build in response to the fragility of ecosystems in the Anthropocene? Vincent Jondeau’s installation poetically explores this reflection by confronting his own vision of the plant world with the botanical drawings made by his ancestor at the end of the 19th century.
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Photography, 2024
Archival Pigment (B/W). Print, 22 x 32
© Vincent Jondeau
« Aesculus » tells the story of a seed that germinated in the 19th century and now reappears like a specter, evoking the profound transformations that have shaped our world since.
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Photography, 2024
Archival Pigment (B/W). Print, 32 x 42
© Vincent Jondeau
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Photography, 2024
Archival Pigment (B/W). Print, 42 x 32
© Vincent Jondeau
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Photography, 2024
Archival Pigment (Color). Print, 22 x 32
© Vincent Jondeau
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Photography, 2024
Archival Pigment (Color). Print, 22 x 32
© Vincent Jondeau
« Tilia » tells the story of a plant species deeply rooted in European landscapes, and largely present in Berlin, yet now threatened by a parasite encouraged by human activity. Rendered as a negative, the image reveals the scars of its alteration, while its presentation on the scan of an antique paper offers a moment of contemplation and reflection.
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Drawing, 1890
Pencil on antique Paper, 22 x 32
© Louis Edmont Chapuis
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Photography, 2024
Archival Pigment (B/W). Print, 22 x 32
© Vincent Jondeau
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Drawing, 1886
Pencil on antique Paper, 22 x 32
© Louis Edmont Chapuis
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Photography, 2024
Archival Pigment (Color). Print, 22 x 32
© Vincent Jondeau
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Photography 2024
Archival Pigment (B/W). Print, 22 x 32
© Vincent Jondeau
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Photography 2024
Archival Pigment (B/W)
Print, 22 x 32
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— 2024 |La Coupole (Dijon/FR) • Joint exhibition “Protéger les vivants” 16.12-30.12
— 2024 |PEP x BPM (Mulhouse/FR) • Group exhibition “(Im)possible worlds” 13.09-13.10
— 2024 |Kunstquartier Bethanien (Berlin/DE) • Group exhibition “Wir werden sehen” 29.05-02.06
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Kunstquartier Bethanien
« Wir Werden Sehen »
Station №1(Drawings by Louis Edmont Chapuis, 1800s | Wilted Flowers Jar)
Station№2 (3:48min, Projector loop)/ Music by Atlas Glass
Station№3 (5:02min, Monitor loop)
https://diemotive.de/event/wir-werden-sehen-2
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Biennale Photo Mulhouse x PEP
« (Im)possible Worlds »
« Among other universes, the public can discover that of artist and filmmaker Vincent Jondeau through an image from his series “Verschwinden” – literally: “disappear”. It shows a plant whose silvery palms seem to emerge from the shadows. As if devitalized, the colors reflect the corruption of the environment in which it is dying. This simple, powerful and edifying image, featured on the cover of this catalog, is a clear illustration of the threat of extinction of many species in the fragile ecosystems of the Anthropocene. »
https://www.biennale-photo-mulhouse.com/2024/bpm-x-pep-impossible-worlds
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La Coupole – Dijon
« Protéger les vivants »
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