Jardins d’Été

Jardins d’Été is composed of a series of videos of flowers in full bloom, filmed by Quayola at night. These flowers, swaying gently in the wind and highlighted by a spotlight, look almost as though they are dancing and emerging from the darkness. Their shifting hues — pinks, blues, and greens — interrupt the black backdrop, and become the focal point of this digital painting. Jardins d’Été is heavily influenced by Monet’s Water Lillies (1920-26), displayed in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris since 1927. Quayola deconstructs these venerated images, deeply ingrained in the cultural memory of the public. The artist mimics the scale of Monet’s Water Lillies in Jardin d’Été, which, when presented as a physical installation, is screened as a multichannel installation at human scale. Here, Quayola calls upon the Impressionist desire to fully immerse the viewer in the memory of a landscape