Mercuer

Mercurart

2024

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128 Route du Ranchet,
07200 Mercuer

In Mercuer, in the heart of the Cévennes Ardéchoises, there's a garden like no other. What it shows at first glance flatters the eye with its beauty. What it tells through its interactive terminals documents, moves and challenges. It stands as a metaphor for the necessary alliance between man and nature, driven by beauty and goodness.

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The virtual plant greenhouse

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Based on Alexia Fabre's "connivance with the local territory", Jean-Claude MILLET drew on the concept of a standard horticultural greenhouse, created by Bresse-based visual artist Joël Paubel, to present a greenhouse for growing virtual plants.

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Secular chapels/oratories

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Just as the Neolithic stonemason's skill (hands), sensitivity (beauty) and intelligence (use) revealed his work, so Jean-Claude MILLET's installations in the rock of liberty create an arrow of knowledge, in the name of liberty-equality-fraternity.

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Performance about Liberté-Égalité-Fraternité

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Jean-Claude MILLET's mastery of combinatorial techniques enables him to approach many disciplines from a creative angle. He has experimented with what he calls lexical genetics. He created the word "Liberté-Égalité-Fraternité" in the form of a performance.