CYNTHIA DINAN-MITCHELL | GREFFE-MOI UNE FLEUR

For a long time, Cynthia Dinan-Mitchell’s work has been organized around these unusual encounters of forms and objects stemming from different cultural spheres. She has experimented with numerous ways of pairing iconic and varied motifs, and even disparate artistic practices. In her recent work, these relationships occur among drawings of plants, living plants and ceramic ones, giving body to new specimens, crossing interior plants with decorative knick-knacks. It becomes clear that the work does not simply illustrate the process of grafting, producing various decorative representations of it, but rather translates, through artistic and mimetic form, the function of the cutting, the joining.