ArtReview are running a series of interviews with the artists representing countries in the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale next month. Here is an interview with the French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot who will have trees that move around the interior of the pavilion.
What can you tell us about your exhibition plans for Venice?
I want to invite viewers to an ensemble of sensory experiences that blur the antitheses between human and vegetal, machines and living organisms, inside and outside, fixed and mobile, fast and slow. For example I use low-voltage electrical currents to make trees move around inside the pavilion. I create landscapes and soundscapes that allow for a different experience of time and space and a renewed way of listening, looking, sensing…
