Tele Garden presents two mediated ecosystems that exist as postcards from nowhere: gardens accessible only through telecommunication, forever growing yet never quite real. Drawing from tropical kitsch aesthetics, the series examines how colonial frameworks have reduced tropical nature to a simplified visual language, while plastic palm trees, bright flowers, and edenic imagery erase the actual complexity of ecosystems, cultures, and geographies within the tropical zone. Through deliberate artificiality, the work explores the tourist fantasy that has replaced geographical reality.
Each video depicts two speculative 3D plant species against gradient skies and water, usingthe saturated pinks, greens, oranges, and turquoise common in eco-tourism marketing andconsumer culture. The botanical forms were modeled in 3D with deliberately plasticmateriality, then processed through analog video equipment, introducing VHS degradationand color bleeding. The resulting imagery oscillates between hyperreal and nostalgic, muchlike a postcard.
Between painting and pixels, un Balcon sur la mer, offers an open dialogue betweeTele Garden explores synthetic nature as inherited visual language divorced from place. Thework presents openly artificial constructs which are commercial, easy to look at, andunapologetically fake. These are gardens cultivated entirely within screens, built fromcommodified colonial imagery now ubiquitous in spas and advertisements. Each 50-secondloop functions as momentary escape, severed from any actual geography, existing only ascirculation and spectacle.n sensitivity and technology - a new way of looking at, inhabiting, and experiencing the image.
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