NATURE

“'Everything that is most eccentric in man, the gypsy in him, can surely be summed up in these two syllables: garden.” Louis Aragon, Le paysan de Paris Here, not far from Paris, were marshes, which became in turn the vegetal plain of one of the largest agricultural territories in Europe, then, between 1952 and 1972, a gigantic slum, that of the Campa. Now, one seems to feel there this "feeling of nature" that the peasant of Aragon felt when he walked in the park of Buttes-Chaumont. Just like the latter, the park of La Courneuve was invented, built from scratch. A manufactured green lung, it can be defined as a park as well as a huge garden. The garden of the large surrounding complexes, concrete enclosures composing one of the most urbanized and poorest territories of the country. In the silence of the place, contemporaneity sinks into this hybrid space as into an original reverse, creating an asynchronous picture where reality becomes fable.