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 Drawing as aims 

 Flora

Indian ink and black smoke on Bristol paper_40/40cm 

Selected drawings

The "Flora » series is inspired by representations of autopsies that took place at the instigation of Frederick II in the 13th century and that continued well into the Renaissance. The interest here lies in making visible what by nature remains hidden and in linking it to divinatory practices such as anthropomancy (divination by analysis of human entrails). In some eighteenth-century anatomical plates by Jacques Gautier d'Agoty and René-Jacques Croissant de Garengeo, the curled-up skin following the cross-section of the abdomen offers an analogy with a flower. "Flora" are drawings made from a stain of ink and smoke, sometimes from viscera imprints and traces of blood. A three-dimensional reading invites deciphering; science, psychology and esotericism (divinatory practices) meet in a hybrid form mixing plant and animal.

Drawing of flowers / viscera in Indian ink and black smoke. Inspired by the representations of autopsies of the 13th century, it is a question of evoking what by nature is hidden in connection with divinatory practices.
Drawing of flowers / viscera in Indian ink and black smoke. Inspired by the representations of autopsies of the 13th century, it is a question of evoking what by nature is hidden in connection with divinatory practices.
Drawing of flowers / viscera in Indian ink and black smoke. Inspired by the representations of autopsies of the 13th century, it is a question of evoking what by nature is hidden in connection with divinatory practices.
Drawing of flowers / viscera in Indian ink and black smoke. Inspired by the representations of autopsies of the 13th century, it is a question of evoking what by nature is hidden in connection with divinatory practices.
Drawing of flowers / viscera in Indian ink and black smoke. Inspired by the representations of autopsies of the 13th century, it is a question of evoking what by nature is hidden in connection with divinatory practices.
Drawing of flowers / viscera in Indian ink and black smoke. Inspired by the representations of autopsies of the 13th century, it is a question of evoking what by nature is hidden in connection with divinatory practices.
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