CeCiL's Box by Boulc'h & Schosseler

With its CeCiL’s Box project, Cercle Cité welcomes creations in one of its windows on rue du Curé. This project aims to present varied and original interventions to the public, and is also a way to support local creation by offering visibility to guest artists. These interventions are visible 7 days a week, day and night.

Genetic Bloom is based on the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, which is thought to have caused mutations in the local flora, as evidenced by numerous photographs that have appeared on the Internet since 2015.


Charlotte Boulc'h & Lucie Schosseler's installation consists of three elements: a vase, a bouquet of flowers and a pair of curtains. The bouquet is composed of various types of flowers and includes reproductions of mutant daisies from Fukushima next to imaginary, simultaneously credible and incredible specimens. The vase is decorated with sculpted organisms entertaining a particular relationship with nuclear radiation: some resist it while others mutate. The faux leather curtains evoke two different eras. Inspired by traditional half-curtains, they represent a bucolic landscape on the backdrop of a nuclear mushroom.


Boulc'h & Schosseler's work merges factuality and likelihood, certainty and plausibility, true and artificial nature. Their flowers are located simultaneously in a remote place and a different territory beyond usual structures. Here, nature suffers from a kind of "biological jet-lag", its natural cycle out of sync. This dysfunction causes the emergence of a parallel world where the normal course of things is gradually undermined.

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