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For her site-specific project, the artist has imagined plants becoming animal or human creatures: sculpted in aluminium, twisted and ‘neurotic’ (according to her) vine branches are transformed into human faces, a wolf's head or mechanical elements. The main work, big flower (gynoecium), suggests ribs as much as an insect, a monster or an abstraction. It evokes references both from the history of cinema (Tim Burton’s creatures) and art (Giacometti’s Woman with Her Throat Cut). We come face to face with a strange being whose wide-open limbs seem to be waiting to embrace us, or to imprison …