The wall installation AIR Bormes: Blossoming consists of a 3c / 4c series of individual photographs and (looping) very short films, as well as photo and video series, each of which has its own title. All of these works depict lush, growing, and blooming plants.

Strelitzia reginae [Bird-of-paradise / crane flower]

Old cactus with ground cover

alexandra reill, 2026
photographic series
digital: 4032 × 2268 / 72 dpi
print: size tba / 300 dpi

The photographs were taken in spring 2026 during a week-long residency in southern France undertaken by Alexandra Reill. After reviewing all the photographs, the artist found it remarkable that, unlike on any other journey she had ever gone on, and apparently unconsciously—with the exception of only a very few, isolated shots that were essentially those of a tourist—she had photographed exclusively plants and flowers.

AIR Bormes: Blossoming ist Teil des künstlerischen Forschungsprojekts Flourishing.

Whether her fascination with and admiration for a plant world of such exuberance—one she had never before experienced, both in its locally specific diversity and its overall characteristics—had a retroactive effect on her subconscious, or whether the choice of subjects emerged from it, remains an open question.

An initial review of all the works in this module has been completed, as has the development of working titles for the individual sub-works. The current task is to finalize the work titles and the display formats for the individual images and videos. This will be followed by a review of the sub-works to determine their arrangement in relation to one another, as well as the presentation format and the calculation of the spatial dimensions of the wall installation. Until this is complete, inquiries regarding individual works or sub-series are welcome.