Hôtel de Crillon

Set within the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, this intimate exhibition brings together four artists-Lara Porzak, Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen, Pierre Bonnefille, and aurèce vettier-each offering a deeply personal interpretation of the natural world through their chosen mediums.

Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen sculpts intricate floral forms entirely by hand from paper, cutting freehand with scissors in a process rooted in traditional Danish craft. Her sculptures-light, delicate, and vibrantly colored-pay tribute to the fragility and celebration of life in bloom. Pierre Bonnefille, named Maître d'Art by the French Ministry of Culture, presents textured compositions that evoke aquatic landscapes and the golden flickers of light across water at dusk. Using materials of his own making, Bonnefille crushes bronze to create an internal glow-a technique he has refined into a signature, and a meditation on the natural interplay of reflection, time, and stillness. Lara Porzak employs historic analog and tintype photography techniques, producing soulful, dreamlike images entirely by hand in the darkroom-each one an alchemy of chemistry, intuition, and timelessness. aurèce vettier, the hybrid practice of Paul Mouginot, begins in the digital sphere-training AI to generate imaginary tree forms. These are reconstructed in real branches, cast in bronze, and gilded in gold leaf and palladium by the renowned Studio Gohard, fusing machine learning with fine artisan tradition.

Together, these works offer varied perspectives on the natural world-each shaped by a distinct process, material, and sensibility.