# Ce que disent les plantes — Grenier à Sel

- Title: Ce que disent les plantes — Grenier à Sel
- Content type: Exhibition
- Language: en
- Canonical URL: https://aurecevettier.com/en/exhibitions/ce-que-disent-les-plantes
- Published: 2026-08-18T16:40:08+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-18T16:40:08+00:00

## Details

- Type: Group exhibition
- Location: Avignon France
- Dates: 7 October 2023 — 17 January 2024

## Main content

Ce que disent les plantes (*What Plants Tell Us*) marked the first chapter of *Symptoms of the Living* (2023–2025), an exhibition cycle developed by Le Grenier à sel around changing relationships between humans, technology, and the living world. Bringing contemporary artworks into dialogue with historical herbariums, the exhibition explored the ways in which plants are observed, celebrated, preserved, and reinvented.

At a time of accelerating climate change, profound transformations in agriculture, and the emergence of increasingly virtual and artificial forms of nature, *What Plants Tell Us* asked what plants can teach us—and how artists might help us reconsider our relationship with them.

The exhibition brought together artistic perspectives on the vegetal world that ranged from celebrations of beauty and life to reflections on biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystems. Moving beyond a historically anthropocentric understanding of nature, the works invited visitors to enter a non-human world and reconnect with the complexity and agency of living systems.

Nearly twenty works unfolded around three intertwined themes—celebrating, preserving, and recreating—through a wide range of media including drawing, video projection, film, sculpture, algorithmic painting, generative and interactive installation, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality.

Spanning more than a century of approaches to observing and representing plants, from nineteenth-century scientific herbariums to the digital collections and datasets assembled by contemporary artists, the exhibition examined how technology transforms both our perception of nature and our capacity to imagine new forms of life.

aurèce vettier
Donatien Aubert  
Karl Blossfeldt  
Betty Bui  
Miguel Chevalier  
Thierry Cohen  
Jean Comandon  
Valère Costes  
Jean-Henri Fabre  
Jérémy Griffaud  
Fabrice Hyber  
Benjamin Just  
Laurent Pernot  
Sabrina Ratté  
Max Reichmann

## Relationships

### Exhibited artworks

- [areal.collect(128)](https://aurecevettier.com/en/works/sur-nature/areal-collect-128.md)
- [bitter-hemp](https://aurecevettier.com/en/works/sur-nature/bitter-hemp.md)

## Official references

- [Official page](https://legrenierasel-avignon.fr/ce-que-disent-les-plantes)
- [Press release](https://aurecevettier.com/media/pages/exhibitions/ce-que-disent-les-plantes/d6f6f88133-1787071193/dp_ce_que_disent_les_plantes-full1-1.pdf)