L'histoire perdue is a temporary garden I designed for the Old General Cemetery in Diepenheim. This cemetery, which was closed in 1910, still contains about 60 stone funerary monuments, in an otherwise empty green space. Under the turf lie about 400 graves that have not been cleared, but whose wooden headstones have disappeared over time. The awareness of a forgotten history is shown this summer by marking the old graves with sunflowers: “L'histoire perdue”.
At the beginning of May, the sunflowers were sown, 7 types of Helianthus. They are now growing nicely and if the weather gods continue to cooperate, they will bloom in August. The exhibition can be seen from July 1 to September 1.
L'histoire perdue, summer 2017
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