Zoe Imber is a French artist and designer based in Normandy. Since 2021, she has been developing a distinctive practice using pressed, bleached and dried botanical elements to create intricate compositions reminiscent of the art of tapestry or plumasserie.

At once vibrant and tinged with melancholy, Imber's works speak to the passage of time. For her, cut flowers are the very expression of fragility and ephemerality. By preserving them, she indefinitely extends their life in a new cycle, allowing them to age and transform slowly over time and under the influence of the elements - humidity and light. Capturing the beauty of impermanence, her works will acquire unique chromatic variations, transparencies, or new textures.

Inventory VI is a poetic exploration of nature’s transience, composed of more than 9,000 ruscus leaves, bleached and gilded with 23-karat gold. This intricate composition echoes the visual language of tapestry and plumasserie, capturing a delicate balance between natural poetry and mechanical precision.
The application of gold does not conceal the material’s organic essence; it illuminates it, transforming the natural into something at once living and timeless.

The two techniques serve as a quiet form of reverence, a way of honoring the fleeting, exploring the paradox of the eternal and the ephemeral.