The Flair Prize invites you to discover the exhibition Resurgences by the winner of its third edition, artist and designer Alexis Foiny.
Resurgences explores solastalgia through the scent of Bois puant (Foetidia mauritiana), an endemic tree from Mauritius and La Réunion now classified as critically endangered. Its acrid, rancid effluvium becomes a sensory archive of disappearing ecosystems, evoking broken interactions between plants, animals, and human practices. The work highlights the causes of this decline—urbanisation, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and climate change—and enters into dialogue with the conservation research conducted by the Conservatoire Botanique National de Mascarin.
Galerie Derouillon
38 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris
This exhibition will take place from March 28 to April 12.
Friday 10 April – Herbal tea tasting and conversation with perfumer Margaux Le Paih-Guérin about the development of this edition.