SCIENCE/FICTION: A NON-HISTORY OF PLANTS

19世紀半ばから現代に至るまで、アート、テクノロジー、科学を結びつけながら、科学とフィクションという2つのコンセプトを通じて、植物の視覚的歴史を辿る作品集。2024年10月から2025年1月にかけて「ヨーロッパ写真美術館（Maison Européenne de la Photographie / MEP）」で開催された展覧会に伴い刊行された。

参加作家：Laure Albin-Guillot, Anna Atkins, Karl Blossfeldt, Henry Bradbury, Stan Brakhage, Jean Comandon, Imogen Cunningham, Gohar Dashti, Rebekka Deubner, Ágnes Dénes, Elspeth Diederix, Kalev Erickson, Sam Falls, Éléonore False, Joan Fontcuberta, Stephen Gill, Walon Green, Olga Grotova, Ken Hannam, Horst P. Horst, Peter A. Hutchinson, Pierre Joseph, Philip Kaufman, Ali Kazma, Samir Laghouati-Rashwan, Jochen Lempert, Angelika Loderer, Angelica Mesiti, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Alice Pallot, Agnieszka Polska, Max Reichmann, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Almudena Romero, Philippe Roux, Miljohn Ruperto & Ulrik Heltoft, Stuart A. Staples & Frank Percy Smith, Steve Sekely & Freddie Francis, Timur Si-Qin, Richard Tepe, Charles T. Scowen, Anaïs Tondeur, Edward Weston

From scientific discoveries to animist beliefs, from dread linked to genetic mutations to political narratives, from repulsion to fascination—plants are an inexhaustible source of stories that reveal our most intimate desires and fears. The book questions human projections and representations of the vegetal world, bringing to light the subjectivity, intelligence, and expressive abilities of plants. Lens-based images are primary witnesses to this. The publication traces a visual history of plants, linking art, technology, and science from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, not chronologically, but through two conceptual frameworks: scientific and fictional. Bringing together more than thirty artists across different periods of time and parts of the world, it employs the logic of the science-fiction novel, taking us from a stable, identifiable world and gradually plunging us into uncertain landscapes.

by Jochen Lempert , Sam Falls , Stephen Gill

¥8,580 (tax incl.)

ISBN: 9783959058582

softcover
216 pages
150 x 235 mm
color, black and white
2024

published by SPECTOR BOOKS