+ or - 1.5

From September 30 to October 10, 2023, the Orangerie du Jardin des Plantes will host the exhibition "+ ou - 1,5°", designed by Montpellier's École supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

"+ ou - 1,5 °" is an exhibition proposed by the research group "Le Champ du vivant" of the MO.CO. Esba - Montpellier School of Fine Arts.  

It brings together 28 works created by students, young artists from the school and teaching artists. They are all involved in this project, and through their practices and interests are actively engaged in reflections on biodiversity and the living world.  

How do you live in turmoil? How can we adjust to variations and changes? How do we adjust to the powerful flows of metamorphosis? These are just some of the questions that drive this group.

The Orangerie at the Jardin des Plantes is an appropriate place to present this collection of works. By its very nature and function, it is a space that takes climatic conditions into account. It empties and fills to the rhythm of the seasons. As a result, the works slip in and out of place. On a more general level, there's also the desire to place the exhibition in the Jardin des Plantes, a historic botanical garden and a garden for the study of living organisms.  

The pieces on view in this exhibition have not been chosen according to any particular theme. They are the result of a slow process of metabolization, observation, listening and experimentation. More than a collective exhibition, the intention is to make them coexist in this atypical place to varying degrees.