Aux Quatre vents

As the One Shot! show used up all the exhibition spaces at the BPS22, François Martig presented Aux quatre vents during a whole weekend. This project questions the landscape as a social, economic and political space, approaching such issues as consumption, the free circulation of goods and agro-food industrial lobbying. The artist unam­bigu­ous­ly denounces the ​“Catalogue Officiel” (Official Catalogue) that prohibits old seeds from being sold, as they are not registered in the inventory. In this way, multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions currently control 40% of the world seed market.

In an act of resistance, François Martig collects old seeds before dis­trib­ut­ing the latter across territories using carrier pigeons, balloons or still, through the dis­tri­b­u­tion of seeds on local markets, actions that the artist reiterated in Charleroi within the framework of his col­lab­o­ra­tion with the BPS22.

Apart from the fact that this intent constitutes a veritable resistance strategy using standard methods, this project also aims more widely at creating new landscapes and new species in a planetary shuffling.