La Greffe 1, 2024

VAM  

Birch bark, pigment print on Japanese paper, silk thread.

Framed in a 30 x 24 cm frame.

La Greffe 2 is part of VAM's eponymous series, a profound and poetic exploration of the relationships between humans and nature. Through this work, VAM questions the tenuous boundary between the material, the corporeal and the vegetal, while symbolizing the literal and metaphorical fusion of these three elements.

The Graft embodies a true xenograft: the body, fragmented and fused to the bark, is repaired, almost reinvented, by delicate stitches in red silk thread, testifying to the fragility, but also the resilience of this new hybrid nature.

VAM pushes to the extreme the contemporary idea of reinventing our connection with nature. By erasing the boundaries between the plant and human worlds, she imagines a new mythology where nature encompasses and transforms us. Bodies and trees become a whole, rooted in the same essence, regenerating each other. This work embodies a metaphor of transplantation, where the plant and the human coexist, feed off each other and rise together.

VAM celebrates a universal solidarity, reinventing a hybrid connection between humans and nature, and offers us a vision of a world augmented not by technology, but by the organic. This work, which invites us to anchor ourselves to stop the drift, resonates as a call to reconnect with nature and the space around us. It reflects a desire to create a bridge between our personal stories and the great natural history.

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