Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville

Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville © Benoît Labourdette.

Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville is an architect and landscape designer, following in the footsteps of Paul Virilio. He takes as concrete data the change in the world’s light, which is becoming electronic, and the acceleration of time, among other philosophical upheavals. In nature, he designs and builds an imaginary world of dialogue and respect for living things, based on a form of architectural calligraphy. In particular, he creates gardens in the sky with his invention, vegetated lianas.

His work has been exhibited at the Chaumont-sur-Loire garden festival, INRA, the Château de Versailles, the EDF Foundation, the city of Strasbourg... He collaborates as much with major architectural agencies as with artists of all disciplines, dancers, singers and film-makers.


Poem in automatic writing about « Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville »
It’s this intellectual agility that Blaise Pascal invites us to in this sentence, it seems to me, as he navigated the clash between science and belief. Discover safety at home in the world. It is when it swings that the pistil becomes accessible to pollen and can therefore be pollinated by the camera, which penetrates it at the same time as it is penetrated. The gradual appropriation of the sky, to gently touch it, walk in it, live in it. Light is no longer the same, time is no longer the same, nature is in retreat-unfold, reinventing itself in this new world. At the initiative of Carole Contant, September 25, 2016. And our diverse writings are in dialogue. The music of nature, the music of the act of cultivating, the music of our movements, the music of looking at and listening to others... If the text appeared as it went along, it could be fragmented, weakened by bias. The plant is illuminated at night by strong spotlights and is visited on the day, in its night.

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