the market gardener, portrait of Cia G.
huile sur toile, 100×100 cm Prix2000€ + envoi
The term ‘environment’ belongs to the technological vocabulary of green technocrats. They certify to us that we live in the environment and that it must be respected. As if all environments were respectable!… The older notion of ‘milieu,’ borrowed from biology, seems more appropriate, but it implies that we would be in the middle. It is clear today that we are rather on the periphery, right?… The planet, derived from astrophysics, also needs protection. Astrophysicists often have big patriarchal beards. Protecting the planet is a concern of playmobil players. As if we were in orbit!… The old word ‘nature’ is already more interesting because we are not in nature, we are of nature. But what is nature? It is not the world that can deny it, nor the universe that cares… Nature does not exist and will never exist on Mars. Because nature cannot be dominated, transported; it is a fabulous chance to cultivate. Like this green cabbage that Cia grows without chemicals, on the hillside, under blue skies, between Sainte-Croix and Fabas. She sells it at the market. And I put it in the pot-au-fe