Future Herbarium
12 000 €
About this work
Future Herbarium is part of an eponymous series by French contemporary artist Laurent Grasso, in which scientific imagery, speculative fiction, and art history converge.
Conceived as an archive from an uncertain future, the series revisits botanical illustration through the lens of temporal displacement and technological imagination. Plants appear both familiar and alien, suspended between documentation and prophecy.
Our work presents a piece set against backgrounds of palladium leaves. This precious, reflective surface evokes a shared sacred iconography, lending the compositions an aura of rarity, transcendence and universality. As a result, the botanical forms seem to oscillate between presence and absence.
About the artist
Located at the intersection of heterogeneous temporalities, geographies, and realities, Laurent Grasso’s films, sculptures, paintings, and photographs immerse the viewer in an uncanny world of uncertainty. The artist creates mysterious atmospheres that challenge the boundaries of what we perceive and know.
Anachronism and hybridity play an active role in his strategy, which entails diffracting reality in order to recompose it according to his own rules. Fascinated by the way in which various powers can affect human conscience, Grasso seeks to grasp, reveal, and materialize the invisible, from collective fears to politics to electromagnetic or paranormal phenomena. His work reveals what lies behind common perception and offers us a new perspective on history and reality.
Era :
Contemporary
Materials :
Oil painting on silver leaf
Dimensions :
100x100x2cm
Made in :
France
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