Fleurs de guerre
For the fourth edition of its creative residency, the museum is welcoming the artist 1011 for a six-month immersion, leading to an exhibition that will be held from November 4th, 2025 to March 15, 2026 in the salle des Plaques.
The Project : An Inventory of obsidional plants
The photographs of the regions devastated during the First World War have particularly captured the artist’s attention. They form the starting point for a line of inquiry: What do these scarred landscapes look like today? Has nature shown resilience? Have humans intervened to rebuild the vegetation? Are the traces of this destruction still visible today? And what kind of inventory could be drawn up in 2025 of these former battlefields?
These questions led 1011 to explore the concept of obsidional plants, or “polemoflora” (from the Ancient Greek polemos, “war”). This botanical term refers to plant species spread during wars and population movements. A grim form of cultural diversity.
Usually focusing on what is disappearing, the artist’s intention during this residency is to create a drawn inventory of the plants of the polémoflore, in resonance with the First World War images preserved in the Archives of the Planet.
At a time of massive loss of plant biodiversity, this project offers an optimistic perspective on vegetal resilience — allowing both the poetry and the tragic memories of these places to resonate.
Fleurs de guerre: a few images
The Program
Meet the artist
Come and discover the drawn inventory by the artist 1011, in residence in the salle des Plaques. During a visit-and-meeting, explore the artist’s universe and their reinterpretation of the Archives of the Planet.
Dates:
- Sunday 7th December 2025 at 11:30 AM
- Sunday 1st February 2026 at 2:00 PM
- Wednesday 25th February 2026 at 2:00 PM
👥 For all audiences
💶 included with entry, while places last
Botanical Workshop
Get started with botanical drawing alongside the artist 1011 ! During this workshop-meeting, you will explore the museum’s plant heritage in a new way and create your own observational drawing of a plant from the garden.
Dates:
- Sunday, December 7, 2025, at 2:30 PM (1h30) ⇒ from November 15, 2025 ✍️ INSCRIPTIONS HERE!
- Sunday, February 1, 2026, at 10:30 AM (1h30)
- Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at 3:30 PM (1h30)
- Sunday, March 15, 2026, at 10:30 AM (1h30)
👨👩👧👦 Audience : Families with children aged 6 and up
💶 Included with entry, while places last
Discover the artist
1011 is a French visual artist, born in 1970 in Bretagne.
Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Rennes, she worked for 30 years at the Fine Art Museum of Grenoble as head of the children’s workshop and as a facilitator for visitors who are blind or partially sighted.
Her work, influenced by philosophy, explores humanity’s submission to the forces of technology and its profound impact on history and the contemporary era.
1011 primarily works in drawing and uses her art to highlight the loss of biodiversity. In the spirit of 18th-century naturalist plates, her colored pencil drawings evoke a tragic contemporary reality: the relentless disappearance of the living world.
1011 is currently in residence at the National Museum of Natural History.
To discover more about this artist:
Colored Pencil Drawing
In Praise of Slowness
Colored pencil is a medium that everyone has used at least in early childhood. The emotion it evokes is therefore very particular, as these are simple tools reminiscent of childhood pleasures.
1011 uses colored pencils for their precision, beauty, and vivid colors. She also values the simplicity of the medium, as well as its low carbon footprint.
The artist 1011 works on large-scale pieces, which would seem to make colored pencils an unsuitable tool given the size and the time required. Yet her drawings take their time… Their lengthy creation contrasts with the accelerated pace of the digital age, where there is little room for daydreaming, imagination, or a suspended sense of time.
The artist's technique thus pays tribute to the rhythm of nature... at work since the dawn of time.