I have the great pleasure of announcing the release of the book « Seed stories », the result of a documentary work started 13 years ago, continued and enriched by my meeting with Xavier Barral in 2015 and Ô how much finalized, realized and edited by Nathalie Chapuis and the entire team of Editions Atelier EXB since 2019.
« There is mystery in the seeds, a mystery that reminds the nimbant of the stars.
far away. By their shape, the seeds, from near or far, resemble stars,
asteroids in levitation in the cosmos, by their small dry body, sphere with brown tissue
Dehydrated, whose inert appearance reveals nothing of the vital energy they hold.
Like the stars, the seeds belong to the kingdom of night, the night of the ground. If
our eyes could pierce his darkness, perhaps we could see them radiating in
weightlessness in the earth, sparkling constellation of possible lives. »
Marion Chartier and Charlotte Fauve – excerpt from the book
Publication: 18 June 2022
Photographs: Thierry Ardouin / Trend Floue
Texts:
– Marion Chartier, researcher in evolutionary biology at the University of Vienna, Austria
– Charlotte Fauve, landscape engineer and journalist
– Gilles Clément, gardener, landscaper and botanist
– Serge Bahuchet, ethnobotanist at the National Museum of Natural History of Paris
– José-Manuel Gonçalvès, Director of 104 Paris
– Thierry Ardouin
Drawings: Emmanuelle Buffé
Data sheet: Related, 19 x 25 cm, 336 pages, 253 colour photographs, Price: 45 €TTC
ISBN FR: 978-2-36511-124-9. ISBN UK: 978-2-36511-345-8
To buy:
– On the siteEXB Workshop.
– For the signed version, still on the site of theEXB Workshop (other link)
– And of course, in your favorite bookstore.