How to reach the tourist office?
From Saturday 7 to Sunday 8 June 2025, every Saturday and Sunday.
Pascal Levaillant, artist-botanist, will be present:
> 9am to 1pm (cairns created in the presence of the public)
> 3pm to 7pm (guided tour)
Guided tours by the manager of the Alpine Botanical Garden:
> 9h
> 14h30
Self-guided tours throughout the day.
Subject to favorable weather.
Free entry.
As part of the Rendez-vous aux Jardins 2025, organised by the French Ministry of Culture from 6 to 8 June 2025, the Jardin botanique alpin La Jaÿsinia will be welcoming Pascal Levaillant, a plastic artist-botanist.
Cairns ‘in-situ at the Jaÿsinia, by Pascal Levaillant, Artist and author
These stone sculptures, vertical and ephemeral mosaics, invite the viewer to abandon the horizon and the panorama, transforming our perception of the landscape and allowing us to make it our own more intimately.
The precarious, ephemeral nature of these stacks of stones contrasts with the placidity of the surrounding countryside. Made of natural elements, simple stones, they are nonetheless man-made constructions, erected at least as far back as the Neolithic period, and which today produce an effect of incongruity. These constructions are more of a pretext for offering the spectator an in-depth reflection on the botanical garden of the Jaÿsinia and an invitation to dialogue with its nature, in a balance between wildness and orderliness.
The idea is to offer visitors a moment of disconnection from the accelerating pace of the world, and to reflect on the sense of truth that can be gained from seeing nature in its wild, ordered state, yet so far removed from our frenetic daily lives.
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