Still Life? - PBF04 / Vincent Fournier
15 November to 21 December 2019
![© Vincent Fournier, Ibis,[Ibis temperatio] Drought- and frost-resistant bird , From the series Post Natural History , 2014.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e15b5e07c5a90209a738487/1586513947513-JYUZ53IWSESAE2JRLIBW/Vincent+Fournier2.png)
![© Vincent Fournier, Scorpion [Orbus Chirurgia] Scorpion used for semi automated surgery, From the series Post Natural History , 2014.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e15b5e07c5a90209a738487/1586513955727-GEYRSU38N520OFL75ZIB/Vincent+Fournier3.png)
![© Vincent Fournier, Rabbit [Oryctolagus cognitivus] Very intelligent rabbit , From the series Post Natural History , 2012.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e15b5e07c5a90209a738487/1586513966966-K5Q5GVH0BWVNL7JY3KM7/Vincent+Fournier1.png)
With his project Post Natural History, Vincent Fournier explores our relationship with nature and technology through an imaginary and anticipatory bestiary.
Post Natural History is inspired by the scientific « magic » and questions our connection to nature, between perception and knowledge, natural and supernatural, future and past, realism and surrealism. Like Renaissance cabinets of curiosities that explored distant spaces in search of unknown species, the Post Natural History project takes a trip back in time to imagine another Nature. With a beauty that is both strange and familiar, this poetic and sensitive bestiary mirrors our relationship to nature and technology by reflecting our hopes and fears.
Like encyclopedic boards of the future, the photographs reveal a collection of species in the process of appearing. Engraved on a brass plate, « scientific » explanations legitimize the images, paradoxically reinforcing both the reality and the fiction contained in these photographs. Post Natural History mixes history and anticipation, memory and science fiction.
