La Greffe 8, 2024

VAM  

La Greffe 8 is part of VAM's eponymous series, a deep and poetic exploration of the relationships between humans and nature. Through this work, VAM questions the delicate boundary between the material, the corporeal, and the vegetal, symbolizing a literal and metaphorical fusion of these three elements.

Using raw materials such as beech bark, photography, and silk thread, La Greffe 8 embodies a true xenograft: a dialogue between the rough, organic texture of the bark and the softness of the human body. The body, fragmented and fused with the bark, is repaired—almost reinvented—by delicate stitches in red silk thread, symbolizing both the fragility and resilience of this new hybrid nature.

VAM takes to the extreme the contemporary idea of reinventing our connection with nature. By blurring the boundaries between the vegetal and the human worlds, she envisions a new mythology where nature envelops and transforms us. Bodies and trees become one, rooted in the same essence, regenerating each other. This work represents a metaphor of transplantation, where the vegetal and the human coexist, nourish one another, and rise together.

Through La Greffe 8, VAM celebrates a universal solidarity, reinventing a hybrid connection between humans and nature, offering a vision of a world augmented not by technology, but by the organic. This piece invites us to anchor ourselves to halt the drift, resonating as a call to reconnect with nature and the space around us. It reflects a desire to create a bridge between our personal histories and the larger natural history.

The work invites us to reflect on what it truly means to be "inhabited" by the world around us, through this ultimate transplantation where the tree becomes an extension of our body and where we find a poetic transcendence.