fernando laposse’s glassy floral installation for maison perrier-jouët arrives at design miami

Fernando Laposse and maison perrier-jouët for design miami

Following our coverage in June 2023, Maison Perrier-Jouët now presents Fernando Laposse’s translucent floral installation titled The Pollination Dance at Design Miami/. The blooming sculpture is on display until December 10th, 2023. Alongside the installation, Fernando Laposse also created a mouth-blown glass dome containing a microcosm of the installation. It is also presented at Design Miami/, so don’t miss our ultimate guide here to catch up on what is happening in and out of the fairs during Miami Art Week 2023.

For Design Miami/ 2023 in Miami, which runs from December 6th to 10th, artist and designer Fernando Laposse presents his crafted glass-like flowers, leaves, birds, and tree branch installation, the artist’s interpretation of nature’s cycle of pollination. A commission by Maison Perrier-Jouët, the artist incorporates 3D-printed eco resin and sage starch into his floral landscape, coupled with lianas the artist himself gathered from a jungle in central Mexico and natural silk fibers dyed with a mixture derived from cochineal and marigold.

The article was updated on December 6th, 2023 following the recent updates on the story.

installation view at Design Miami/ | images courtesy of Maison Perrier-Jouët

For his Maison Perrier-Jouët commission at Design Miami/ 2023, Fernando Laposse is inspired by his fondness for and personal observations of the environment. The interconnected relationships between flora and fauna tug at the artist’s fascination, so much so that he sculpts his interpretation of pollination in nature. Fernando Laposse delves into the role of flowers within the ecosystem and how they interact with and influence the species they are surrounded by.

By perusing and unfolding the process of pollination, he excavates its complex and harmonious interactions with the plants, insects, and animals that pollinate flowers. In his artistic installation for Design Miami, this scenery appears vivid and translucent, carried out by the lifelike trees that hold up the flora in their cyclic stages, from their budding phase to their fully bloomed period.

detailed view of the pollination installation at Design Miami/ | read our ultimate guide here

illustrating pollination in nature using floral installation

More than the arched branch that shoulders the flora, Fernando Laposse also sculpts a thematic landscape that features a bird pecking a flower’s pistils, its flapping wings caught frozen mid-flight. The viewers can see the presence of nature, detailed as a reference to the shared soft spot for the environment between the artist and Maison Perrier-Jouët. The soothing colors of the glass-like materials he employs to carve the bird and the nuances of beige for the flimsy paper he uses to fold into flowers allude to nature’s often nurturing effect on people.

Fernando Laposse’s floral installation delves into the role of flowers within the ecosystem

Yet, underneath the ephemeral premise of his artistic installation with Maison Perrier-Jouët, Fernando Laposse still punctuates the ecological challenges nature faces at the hands of people. These burdens that the environment confronts due to human actions may be seen more in the artist’s overall practice.

For the past 10 years, he has been working with native farmers in South Eastern Mexico to develop new materials and systems of production that can benefit the local community and the environment. His conscious awareness of nature lends its ethos to his Maison Perrier-Jouët commission, which is on display in the company’s Tokyo pop-up space between October 11th and 29th, 2023. After this sojourn, his floral installation will be exhibited at Design Miami 2023 between December 6th and 10th, 2023.

Fernando Laposse also sculpts a thematic landscape that features a bird pecking a flower’s pistils