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Les Fleurs de la Maladie: Art Installation ubset proudly introduces its Les
Fleurs de la Maladie art installation,
from Recycled COVID-19 Tests Swinner of the Jury Prize at the
17th Festival des Architectures Vives in
Montpellier, France.
Montpellier, France What value do we place on health after
more than three years of the COVID-19
pandemic? How different are our personal
experiences and memories from the times
when contact restrictions, or even nightly
curfews, as well as frequent testing and
monitoring, provided a strict framework
in which to move?
As an interpretation of the
festival theme of Sacrality, Hannah
Fuchsenberger, Anne-Fleur Ising, Atidh
Jonas Langbein, Gianna Neumann,
and Helio Philipp Spiess conceived an
installation that provokes a personal and
emotional engagement with the aftermath
of the COVID-19 pandemic through an
aesthetic, sensual experience. Like white
flowers, 1,482 COVID-19 test cassettes
float above a blue platform. Les Fleurs de
la Maladie - Flowers of the Disease - asks
what value we attribute to our own and
public health in general.
In the last few years of the pandemic,
COVID-19 rapid tests have become a
constant companion and a guarantee

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