The Summer Journey: July 6th - September 8th 2024

Whenever a city is filmed, trees often act as motionless “extras” that remain perfectly still while everything around them moves. And yet, these living things offer shelter and tower over our heads as soon as we choose to notice them.

Once again, through the eyes of artists, what we no longer see will be revealed.

For the Voyage à Nantes itinerary, some of our city’s noteworthy trees will be pampered and reinterpreted by this year’s artists, who will get us to look up again.

We have imagined three ways to showcase the role they play in our city:

– By interpreting the materiality and mysterious world trees conjure up when we pay attention to them – as Henrique Oliveira has done with his works, which are made from scrap wood.

– By letting artists work on trees without harming them in any way.

– By finding ways to give pride of place to impressive and fragile trees that are works of art in their own right, without ever touching them. Dozens of these living entities will also be singled out by a piece of jewelry placed on one of their branches designed by Aurélie Ferruel and Stéphane Pelletier, both along the green line, and out in the Le Voyage dans le Vignoble vineyards.

Jean Blaise