lA fleur morte
Exhibited: 2th February 2025 - 5th May 2025
Location: Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
La Fleur Morte is an installation by Rebecca Louise Law as part of FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE.
Occupying two floors and over nine major gallery spaces, this exhibition features large-scale installations, original art, photography, fashion, archival objects and graphic design exploring the ongoing influence of flowers on creativity and human expression.
‘Using the dead flower as my sculptural material has enabled me to explore our capitalist culture and our insatiable appetite for more. I began collecting flowers in 2003 with waste flowers from the commercial flower industry. As well as this resource, many flowers in my archive have been donated from gardens all over the world and today I grow my own. I never throw any flowers away and I collect the floral dust that falls while I install. Valuing what the earth provides us, is paramount in my works ethos’.
‘I look at a preserved flower and I see time.
I see survival.
I see life.
And I see death.
But there is a spiritual place.
In-between.
A place we can connect.
A place we can value.
A place we can stop.
And think.
And be.’Rebecca Louise Law
Images © Courtesy of Saatchi Gallery / Photographer Matt Chung.
Saatchi Gallery conducted workshops where participants helped to prepare flowers for the installation.
‘Listening and learning about our connection to nature is at the core of these installations. I believe that there is an unseen spiritual connection which happens whilst in the artwork. There are lessons to be learned from each place where I create art and involving the people that occupy the place is vital to each site-specific piece and brings a greater understanding of the space. The making of this artwork has involved local community groups who will continue to be connected to the gallery and all other communities who are involved with my work all over the world, producing the feeling that we are part of something greater and more significant than ourselves individually is at the very heart of my practice.’
