Lives of Grass | Mathilde Roussel

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Mathilde Roussel is a French artist based in Paris. She has created a new set called “Lives of Grass”, most recently at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee. In this set, Mathilde shows the slow transformation of the suspended sculptures covered with grass, this artwork explores the questions around human being in what it is the most imperceptible. It is linked to a search to reveal through metaphor, our inner image. She wants to find the shape, the color, the dimension of our mental landscape. Her autonomous preparatory drawings allow her to formally think her sculptures which become drawings in space.

“Lives of Grass sculptures show the effects of transformation of the material as a metaphor of the transformation of the body. Time sculpts the forms, makes them change and then decay. In Egyptian Mythology, Osiris is the God of renewal, the one who eternally comes back to life. He is also the personification of the fertile land and the natural cycles: death and rebirth, dryness and fertility. The natural world, ingested as food becomes a component of human being. These anthropomorphic and organic sculptures made of soil and wheat grass seeds strive to show that food, it’s origin, it’s transport, has an impact on us beyond it’s taste.”