(AGENPARL) – mar 02 maggio 2023 Grow Up is a programme of exhibitions, offering a cross-section of views on the movement of plants around the world. Cradle of biodiversity and environmental tensions, the twenty or so artists are based in South America, Central America and Taiwan.
Each focus highlights the relationship between plants and humans, exploring the local relationships of a territory but also international ones. This geographical scale cuts across political, social and environmental narratives and issues, as well as post-colonial issues. The projects cross master plants, shamanism, drugs but also the sensitive exploration of a territory.
This relation to plants is central, they are sacred and at the heart of local cultures and beliefs, Grow up wishes to cultivate and increase awareness of our relationship with living things. Fotohaus is invited to extend this programme with Nature et Société.
With the work of Verdiana ALBANO, Pepe ATOCHA, Teo BELTON & Florence GOUPIL, Thomas BRASEY, Isabelle CHAPUIS, Steph COP & Bálint PÖRNECZI, Celine CROZE, Mathias de LATTRE, José DINIZ, Arguiñe ESCANDÓN & Yann GROSS, Nicolas HENRY, Andrea HERNÁNDEZ BRICEÑO, HSU Cheng-Tang, KUO Che-Hsi, Samir LAGHOUATI-RASHWAN, Marc LATHUILLIÈRE, Gabriel MORAES AQUINO, Mads NISSEN & Juan ARREAZA, Tommaso PROTTI, Antoine RENARD, Philippine SCHAEFER, WU Chuan-Lun and the collectives COLLECTIF FIVE, DOCKS COLLECTIVE, LESASSOCIÉS.
More than 20 artists presented this summer at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation from July 3 to September 24, 2023, as part of the Rencontres program.
Associated ARLES
[mrofoundation.org](https://mrofoundation.org/MRO-Foundation)
[rencontres-arles.com](https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en)
[press kit](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tEBoh8C1NH0CiFvlHlWEZ4SiLncjUKCX)and visuals
Press contact: Nathalie Dran
AYA©Arguiñe ESCANDÓN et Yann GROSS