MEP : Science/Fiction — Une non-histoire des Plantes

Karl Blossfeldt, Delphinium. Rittersporn, 1920-1929 Gelatin silver print, 29.8 x 24 cm Courtesy Gallery Berinson, Berlin

Kalev Erickson, Where the Wild Things Grow, 2018-2024 Inkjet print, variable dimensions © Kalev Erikson

F. Percy Smith, still from the film Minute Bodies: The intimate world of F. Percy Smith de Stuart A. Staples, 2017 55 min Courtesy British Film Institute

Elspeth Diederix, Digitalis ferruginea, 2019, from the series 'The Miracle Garden' Inkjet print, 40 x 30 cm © Elspeth Diederix Courtesy Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam

Eleonore False, Chat, 2023 Collage, 22 x 29 cm © Eleonore False / ADAGP, Paris, 2024

Scowen & Co., Liberian Coffee Blossom, ca. 1880 Albumen print, 27,9 x 21,5 cm Courtesy Wilson Centre for Photography

Gohar Dashti, Untitled #2, from the series 'Home', 2017 Inkjet print, 120 x 80 cm © Gohar Dashti

Anna Atkins, Asplenium angustifolium (Glade Fern), ca. 1852 Cyanotype print, 33 × 23 cm Courtesy Wilson Centre for Photography

Angelica Mesiti, Over the Air and Underground, 2020 5 channel video, 10 channel mono audio, 9 minutes Commissioned by the Busan Biennale 2020 © Angelica Mesiti / ADAGP, Paris, 2024 photo © Pierre Jouvion Courtesy Galerie Allen

Anaïs Tondeur, Linum usitatissimum Zone d'exclusion, Tchernobyl, Ukraine – Niveau de radiation : 1.7 microsieverts/h, from the series 'Tchernobyl Herbarium', 2011 Rayogram, pigment print, 36 x 24 cm © Anaïs Tondeur

Alice Pallot, from the series 'Algues maudites, a sea of tears' (Cursed algae, a sea of tears), anoxic aquarium at the CNRS with Lymnaea and watermilfoil plants), 2022 Pigment print laminated on Dibond 190.5 × 75 cm © Alice Pallot Courtesy Hangar, Brussels

Agnieszka Polska, The Book of Flowers, 2023 Full HD video, 9 min 38 sec © Agnieszka Polska Courtesy Galerie Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw

Albert Renger-Patzsch, Heterotrichum macrodum, 1922-1923 Gelatin silver print, 22,9 x 17 cm © Albert Renger-Patzsch / ADAGP, Paris 2024 Courtesy Berinson, Berlin

Ali Kazma, Safe, 2015 Single-channel video, 3 min 17 sec, © Ali Kazma Courtesy Francesca Minini, Milan

Jean Comandon, still from the film La croissance des végétaux, (The Growth of Plants), 1929, 11 min © Musée Albert-Kahn/CD92

Joan Fontcuberta, Giliandria escoliforcia, from the series 'Herbarium', 1984 Gelatin silver print, 39,6 x 30 cm © Joan Fontcuberta / ADAGP, Paris, 2024 MEP collection, Paris

Laure Albin-Guillot, Graine [variante de la planche X de l’album Micrographie décorative] (Seed [variant of plate X from the Decorative Micrography album]), ca. 1931 Direct carbon print (Fresson process), 50 × 42.5 cm © Laure Albin-Guillot / Roger-Viollet Laure Albin-Guillot Courtesy Private Collection, Paris

Max Reichmann, Zucchini Bluete 3, still from the film The Miracle Garden, 1926, 1h21 min Courtesy Absolut Medien

Miljohn Ruperto and Ulrik Heltoft, 50 Leto, from the series 'Voynich Botanical Studies' 2014 50 x 40cm © Miljohn Ruperto and Ulrik Heltoft Courtesy Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, and Vacancy Gallery, Shanghai

Philippe Roux, still from the film A Symphony of Silence, 2024, 14 min © Philippe Roux

Si-Qin Timur, Untitled, 2023 3D stereolithography print on LCD screen, 119 x 75 x 75 cm © Sin-Qin Timur Courtesy Société Berlin

Stan Brakhage, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1981 3 min. 16 mm Courtesy of The Estate of Stan Brakhage / Marilyn Brakhage

Richard Tepe, Wilde tinstange lithorpende tak (Chestnut, buttoned branch) Gelatin silver print, 22 x 16,5 cm Courtesy private collection, Paris

Sam Falls, Reflection, 2022 Fujifilm FP-100C45 instant film, glazed ceramic, and glass © Sam Falls Courtesy Galerie Eva Presenhuber

Jochen Lempert, Perlmutt & Sennenhut 2, 2022 Gelatin silver print, 22 x 16 cm © Jochen Lempert / ADAGP, Paris, 2024 Courtesy ProjecteSD

Angelika Loderer, Exposure (5), 2024 Plexiglas, chromogenic print, wood, mushroom mycelium, 37 x 28 x 4 cm © Angelika Loderer / ADAGP, Paris, 2024 Courtesy Sophie Tappeiner photo © Kunst-dokumentation.com

Pierre Joseph, from the series 'Suite (Lavande)' (Lavender), 2024 Variable dimensions, 385 x 35 cm max (x 7) 35 x 52,5 cm, 9 Epson P20000 digital prints © Pierre Joseph / ADAGP, Paris, 2024 photo © Grégory Copitet Courtesy Air de Paris, Romainville | Grand Paris