La Greffe 11, 2025

VAM  

La Greffe 11 is part of VAM's eponymous series, a deep and poetic exploration of the relationship between humans and nature. Through this piece, VAM questions the thin boundary between the material, the corporeal, and the vegetal, while symbolizing the literal and metaphorical fusion of these three elements.

La Greffe embodies a true xenograft: the body, fragmented and fused with the bark, is repaired, almost reinvented, by delicate stitches of red silk thread, revealing both the fragility and resilience of this new hybrid nature.

VAM pushes the contemporary idea of reinventing our bond with nature to the extreme. By erasing the boundaries between the plant and human worlds, she imagines a new mythology where nature envelops and transforms us. Bodies and trees become one, rooted in the same essence, mutually regenerating. This piece serves as a metaphor for transplantation, where the vegetal and the human coexist, nourish each other, and rise together.

VAM celebrates a universal solidarity, reinventing a hybrid connection between humans and nature, offering a vision of a world enhanced not by technology but by the organic. This work, which invites us to root ourselves to halt our 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 histories and the greater natural history.

The piece 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 poetic transcendence.