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2013 edition
Gardens of sensations

24 April - 20 October 2013

A mini-version of the world, the garden is there for walking, feeling, listening, tasting, seeing and touching; the air comes and goes with the wind, light and shadow interplay, the cold and heat, smooth and rough, liquid and solid, flat and sloping, movement and lolling, shouts and whispers tumble one after the other in unison with the senses and sensations. The body rejoices in a kinaesthesia reminiscent of a physical and spiritual experience of the world. “There is nothing in our intelligence that has not first touched our senses,” proclaimed Aristotle. Well, we would like to show and open visitors’ eyes and senses up to the fact that “there is nothing in our gardens that has not first touched our senses”. This will not merely involve calling upon Baudelairean synaesthesia where “fragrances, colours and sounds answer one another”2, but induce total immersion into an emotional magic acting on every single scene at the same time.

Relentlessly plunged into the mineral and virtual world, people today increasingly aspire to a state of euphoria, of unique harmony blending all of our sensations. To garden the body and mind means reaching out to ourselves in every sense. Weaving a network of sensations, the gardens will mix allusion and turmoil with the multiple experience of the alert body. Hence, some extraordinary flowers will smell of food or spice and give off a taste of sugar, honey or vanilla. Some leaves may also surprise us with a taste of strawberry or chocolate, and the soft feel of velvet … Savours, flavours, fragrances intermingled … such that your senses will be lost, captivated and spellbound in a garden whose matter, textures and plants are caressed with the eye and the hand, and sounds, murmurs and music bewitch souls. Suddenly, surprisingly, the aroma tickles our taste buds, our fingertips trick and amaze us and our senses surround us with a magic we could never have imagined.

Composition of the 2013 jury

As surely the best-known literary journalist in France, Bernard Pivot has profoundly marked the history of French television with his programme “Apostrophes” launched in 1974 and “Bouillon de culture” which he produced from 1990 to 2001. He has held rare and invaluable interviews with such famous writers [...]

published at 12/06/2018
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Gram(in)ophone

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Le sentiment bleu

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Renaissance

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Saute qui peut !

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Les snifettes

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Un paysage à goûter

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Courir pour voir la couleur du vent

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Voir les sons, entendre les couleurs

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Le parfum du chaos magnifique

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En apesanteur

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Le jardin de l’ivresse

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Outside-In

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Derrière l’armoire

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Comme un bruissement d’ailes…

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La jetée

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Des meules impressionnantes

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Qui s’y frotte, s’y pique !

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Tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m’avais déjà trouvé

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Tic-Tac

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Le parfum du blanc

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Le jardin à frôler

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La rivière des sens

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Le jardin d’amour

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Les parfums du vignoble

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Terre à sons

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Le Jardin des rizières

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Xylo

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Le jardin de porcelaine

PERMANENT GARDENS - PRÉS DU GOUALOUP

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Carré et Rond

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Les jardins japonais

Permanent Gardens - Farmyard

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Le potager lumineux

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The Domain's vegetable garden

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The children’s garden

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