As part of the Derek Jarman – Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) exhibition in 2021, the Crédac invited the artist Benoît Piéron in the fall to encapsulate, during a participatory workshop, the garden created by Derek Jarman around Prospect Cottage in Dungeness.

This winter, he invites us to follow the seasons with a second workshop for making capsules filled with seeds. Benoît Piéron, who practices “existential gardening”, botanizes a garden that is imaginary this time, that of the tapestries The Hunt for the Unicorn (1495-1505) in the Metropolitan Museum’s collections.
He thus proposes to take the plant out of the decorative framework to disseminate it in vigorous reality. This gardening is also an opportunity to discover the patriarchal foundations of the myth of the unicorn and to reflect on the belief in non-existence.
The capsules, which enclose powder composed of peat, fertilizer and a selection of ten seeds out of the hundred listed, act as small greenhouses promoting germination. It’s up to you to disseminate this “mille-fleur” (thousand flowers) motif beyond the geographical and temporal limits of the workshop.

Seeds contained in the capsules, with peat and fertilizer:

• Aquilegia vulgaris - common columbine
• Bistorta officinalis - common bistort
• Carthamus tinctorius - dyer’s safflower
• Centaurea cyanus - cornflower
• Fragaria vesca - wild strawberry
• Phiteuma spicateum - spiked raipuron
• Primula veris - officinal primrose
• Rubus fruticossus - wild mulberry
• Salvia sclarea - clary sage
• Silene latifolia - white fellow
  
  
  Workshop open to all!