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Feux de Forêt (Forest's traffic lights / Wildfires))
Feux de Forêt (Forest's traffic lights / Wildfires))
Anton Laborde France, b. 1999
Feux de Forêt (Forest's traffic lights / Wildfires)) , 2025
Mixed media of natural and handmade stained wood collage on wood panel, marquetry hybrid.
70 x 90 cm
GRAL016
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This work is part of the Absurde series. As french Art Historian Nathalie Viot states about Laborde's work ' Incongruous elements — refrigerators, petrol pumps, winged wheelbarrows — emerge within...
This work is part of the Absurde series.
As french Art Historian Nathalie Viot states about Laborde's work " Incongruous elements — refrigerators, petrol pumps, winged wheelbarrows — emerge within this ecosystem, blurring the boundary between reality and imagination. These objects question our relationship with nature and ecology, reminding us that our environment is in constant flux under human influence.
Through everyday items — mobile phones, cameras, and more — the artist examines our own connection to their use, and our growing dependence on technology, social media, and “modern connectivity”, exploring what this dependence changes within us: a form of enslavement, a hold over our lives.
By playing with these juxtapositions, Anton Laborde establishes a dialogue between humankind and its habitat, evoking a future where nature and technology coexist in a state of tension."
As french Art Historian Nathalie Viot states about Laborde's work " Incongruous elements — refrigerators, petrol pumps, winged wheelbarrows — emerge within this ecosystem, blurring the boundary between reality and imagination. These objects question our relationship with nature and ecology, reminding us that our environment is in constant flux under human influence.
Through everyday items — mobile phones, cameras, and more — the artist examines our own connection to their use, and our growing dependence on technology, social media, and “modern connectivity”, exploring what this dependence changes within us: a form of enslavement, a hold over our lives.
By playing with these juxtapositions, Anton Laborde establishes a dialogue between humankind and its habitat, evoking a future where nature and technology coexist in a state of tension."