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Paper Flower and Fungi Grow Out of Vintage Books

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Each work of the France-based artist Stéphanie Kilgast is a small garden. We invite you to explore each garden down to its deepest crevices - the world you'll discover is rich in detail and beauty. You can almost hear the stems of flowers stretching as they grow from a tice, Kilgast imitates how nature takes over discarded and forgotten in her practice books. Leave a book long enough in the forest, and a colony of fungus will grow on it. Leave it long enough at the bottom of the sea, and a colony of corals will settle on it.

In her works, Stéphanie Kilgast accelerates and salutes this process, portraying it in vibrant colors on an intimate, small scale. We hope you enjoy her work as much as we do.

You can find more of her works on the official platforms: Website | Instagram
You can also visit her upcoming exhibition in Melbourne's Beinart Gallery, starting November 5, 2022.

Blue fungus eats away at a book's binding

artwork by Stéphanie Kilgast - Blue fungus

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Garden of yellow flowers and grasses

artwork by Stéphanie Kilgast - yellow flowers

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Jellyfish emerging from the pages

artwork by Stéphanie Kilgast - Jellyfish

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Coral reef replaces a book's old binding

artwork by Stéphanie Kilgast - Coral reef

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Picking daisies

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Metallic fungus in-between pages

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Bloom from the ink

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The circle of life, portrayed on paper

artwork by Stéphanie Kilgast - The circle of life

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Springing from the pages

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