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 project 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. Through the singular representation of plants encountered in his daily life in North Berlin and in his family archives, he probes an era where the question of survival has overtaken that of progress.
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Photography, 2024
Archival Pigment (B/W). Print, 22 x 32
© Vincent Jondeau
« Aesculus” tells the story of a chestnut tree seed that germinated in the 19th century and now reappears like a specter, evoking the profound transformation that has shaped our world since. Today, the once-mighty chestnut trees, now increasingly affected by diseases like leaf miner and canker, stand as fragile symbols of ecological change.
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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 space 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
“Cycas” tells the story of an exotic plant that has become common in domestic spaces. The plant in the photograph was likely abandoned due to signs of lifelessness. Its silvery palms emerge from the shadows, and the colors of the image seem to reflect the corruption of the environment in which it is slowly dying.
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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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— 2025 | Photopolis Festival (Agrínio/GR) • Group Exhibition “Mother Nature–Mother Earth” 26.4-11.5.
— 2025 |Float Photo Magazine (US) • Online exhibition “Whispering Shadows” 20.01
— 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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Float Photo Magazine
“Whispering Shadows”
https://www.floatmagazine.us/online-exhibitions/exhibitions/whispering-shadows#group-229
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La Coupole – Dijon
« Protéger les vivants »
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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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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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