Designed in collaboration with New-Territories

An apparatus built in a forgotten concrete zone forty meters beneath La Defense. A curved glass screen depicts a twelve-minute film in which three avatars perform a pantomime. The avatars are rendered as swarms of oozing bacteria, and ridicule their audience for being unable to see the future that is right before them. Piled around the screen are 170 interlocking PVC inflatables, suspended in a state of slight deflation. Hovering above the inflatables, a melancholic robotic arm plays the role of the lonely gardener. It surveys and scans its plot with a 3D scanner affixed to its head, and then generates paths of movement based upon what it witnesses. As it travels, a 30-centimeter silicone tongue emerges from the robot’s latex head and gently licks the plastic with a warm bacterial solution.