François Fréchet

Lautus naturalis, 2015
Working professionally since 1980, I have been creating transitory “living” interventions or installations. My final works are alive in that it carries out a cycle: birth, life and death.
Birth: is the design of the project and the setting of the work
Life: is the evolution of the work through live plants, and its meeting with the population
Death: is the end of the work, the rotting of the natural materials used, which turn over to nature, from where they derived
Today, my projects, in addition to the aesthetic dimensions of the artist, aim to inform the public (like an alarm bell, and not like giving lessons) of the urgency to preserve and safeguard this priceless inheritance of biodiversity.
My work is always thought in relation with a specific environment where geographical, social and cultural history take place to inspire the work.
It is obvious that one’s psychological and political impact (to the full sense of the term), the environment and his/her frame of mind as they approach my installation — whether it is in a street, on a place, in the woods, or in the countryside — inevitably influences his/her reaction(s), be it received or rejected, accepted or ignored.
For more information about François and his works, please visit his website at francois.frechet.pagesperso-orange.fr.


