# Sur-nature

- Title: Sur-nature
- Content type: Series
- Language: fr
- Canonical URL: https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature
- Published: 2026-08-21T08:41:38+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-21T08:41:38+00:00

## Main content

La *sur-nature* est un corpus de formes botaniques spéculatives, dérivées d'algorithmes personnalisés et restituées à la matière physique. Les œuvres commencent par un modèle d'IA personnalisé, un *Generative Adversarial Network* - ou GAN, entraîné par l'artiste depuis 2019 sur 4 millions de feuilles d'herbier, tirées de collections d'histoire naturelle et d'environ 1 500 spécimens qu'il a séchés et catalogués lui-même dans les montagnes de la Savoie. Le modèle génère des formes végétales qui suivent la logique de la nature mais n'existent jamais en elle : asymétries, tiges qui se referment sur elles-mêmes, coupures abruptes, feuilles irrégulières. Les formes sélectionnées sont élevées en 3D, assorties à des branches tombées rassemblées dans la forêt, puis coulées en bronze selon la technique de la cire perdue, peintes à l'huile, ou projetées dans des tapisseries et autres médiums.

## Relationships

### Potential Herbariums Paintings

- [areal.collect(128) (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/areal-collect-128.md)
- [impossible hemp samples (2022)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/impossible-hemp-samples.md)
- [potential hemp (while drifting in my old Porsche) (2022)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/potential-hemp-while-drifting-in-my-old-porsche.md)
- [its petals are bloodied its thorns are two-pronged ice daggers that pierce my palms (2022)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/its-petals-are-bloodied-its-thorns-are-two-pronged-ice-daggers-that-pierce-my-palms.md)
- [impossible leaf (fragment) (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/impossible-leaf-fragment.md)
- [lepidoflora somnians (in resonance) (2026)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/lepidoflora-somnians-in-resonance.md)
- [radicosma serica (healing flowers from Mount Analogue) (2022)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/radicosma-serica-healing-flowers-from-mount-analogue.md)
- [potential hemp (from the Mountain ledges) (2022)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/potential-hemp-from-the-mountain-ledges.md)
- [unknown samples (mid-altitude) (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/unknown-samples-mid-altitude.md)
- [hemp islands (2022)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/hemp-islands.md)
- [potential hemp (family) (2022)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/potential-hemp-family.md)

### Potential Herbariums Sculptures

- [aurorium graminis (after transmutation into peradam) (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/aurorium-graminis-after-transmutation-into-peradam.md)
- [second tree prosthesis (forms derived from hemp) (2022)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/second-tree-prosthesis-forms-derived-from-hemp.md)
- [soluniversum radiatus (topological projection) (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/soluniversum-radiatus-topological-projection.md)
- [le cabinet botaniste (2022)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/le-cabinet-botaniste.md)
- [model/echium scaber (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/model-echium-scaber.md)
- [nebulae floratendrum (found on Mount Analogue) (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/nebulae-floratendrum-found-on-mount-analogue.md)
- [solisflora aureolus (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/solisflora-aureolus.md)
- [umbratilis florencia (fossilized) (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/umbratilis-florencia-fossilized.md)
- [parieteflora secreta (after transmutation into peradam) (2026)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/parieteflora-secreta-after-transmutation-into-peradam.md)
- [the sound of the sea in a shell (after the landslide) (2025)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/the-sound-of-the-sea-in-a-shell-after-the-landslide.md)
- [aetherpetal radiancium (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/aetherpetal-radiancium.md)
- [model/clethollum arboreum (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/model-clethollum-arboreum.md)
- [torsifolia caelestis (imp0ssibl3 tr33/4) (after transmutation into peradam) (2026)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/torsifolia-caelestis-imp0ssibl3-tr33-4-after-transmutation-into-peradam.md)
- [murivolans obscura (after transmutation into peradam) (2026)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/murivolans-obscura-after-transmutation-into-peradam.md)
- [«tu es un peu de la montagne ; tu ne peux pas la détruire.» (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/tu-es-un-peu-de-la-montagne-tu-ne-peux-pas-la-detruire.md)
- [salix lacrimosa (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/salix-lacrimosa.md)
- [model/milla alba (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/model-milla-alba.md)
- [bitter-hemp (2022)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/bitter-hemp.md)

### Potential Herbariums Tapestries

- [arbor incongruens (initiating transmutation into peradam) (2025)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/arbor-incongruens-initiating-transmutation-into-peradam.md)
- [impossibilis grandifolius (initiating transmutation into peradam) (2025)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/impossibilis-grandifolius-initiating-transmutation-into-peradam.md)
- [distorstella montana (initiating transmutation into peradam) (2025)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/distorstella-montana-initiating-transmutation-into-peradam.md)

### Potential Herbariums Black Paintings

- [montagne/peradam (2023)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/montagne-peradam.md)
- [nothingness (2023)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/nothingness.md)
- [you are not (what you used to be anymore) (2023)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/you-are-not-what-you-used-to-be-anymore.md)
- [you are dying too (2023)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/you-are-dying-too.md)
- [be conforted (2023)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/be-conforted.md)
- [the soil breaks down again (2023)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/the-soil-breaks-down-again.md)
- [and the rocks and the hillsides fall apart (2023)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/and-the-rocks-and-the-hillsides-fall-apart.md)
- [without our presence the soil breaks down (2023)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/without-our-presence-the-soil-breaks-down.md)

### Potential Herbariums Neons

- [rivage / virage (2023)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/rivage-virage.md)
- [la main (pouce) (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/la-main-pouce.md)
- [la main (index) (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/la-main-index.md)
- [la main (majeur) (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/la-main-majeur.md)
- [la main (annulaire) (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/la-main-annulaire.md)
- [la main (auriculaire) (2024)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/la-main-auriculaire.md)

### Impossible Flowers

- [bright as burning onyx (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/bright-as-burning-onyx.md)
- [“I am the lapis-lazuli in the palace garden that you are forbidden to touch, the companion of the One Who Hears. Without my blue, the pomegranate trees and oleander would have no color.” (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/i-am-the-lapis-lazuli-in-the-palace-garden.md)
- [“the color of water, a tourmaline, the color of water is not the color of water the color of water is an illusion a tourmaline,” (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/the-color-of-water-a-tourmaline.md)
- [without a sound, the turquoise became a light in her hands (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/without-a-sound-the-turquoise-became-a-light-in-her-hands.md)
- [I am the last one, I am staring through the jade (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/i-am-the-last-one-i-am-staring-through-the-jade.md)
- [where were you when I found a malachite (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/where-were-you-when-i-found-a-malachite.md)
- [“so this is what an opal is”, I thought (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/so-this-is-what-an-opal-is-i-thought.md)
- [no bloodstone, no blood no blood, no life (2021)](https://aurecevettier.com/fr/works/sur-nature/no-bloodstone-no-blood-no-blood-no-life.md)
