11 Jun 2021
INSTAGRAM OF THE MONTH
Escape Into a World of Shapeshifting Structures and Strange Lines
From crop circles to mountain cabins, Living Structures explores the endless hypnotic ways humans inhabit and shape the world. Words by Joanna Cresswell
Who is Living Structures?
The brainchild of French-born, London-based creative director Florine Bonaventure, Living Structures began in April 2020. “When the first lockdown came, I needed to create space for a personal project, a zone where I could feed myself with things I love,” she says.
The resulting account is an experimental visual essay, the intersection of all of Bonaventure’s key interests—land art and architecture, sculpture and performance. “It celebrates how all of these disciplines help to transcend our experience of the natural world, and asks: How can our bodies activate spaces? To what extent do art and architecture help to reactivate the sensations and feelings of being in nature? And in what ways has nature been turned into a playground?”