“The -murs à pêches- once extended over an area of 600 km2. The peaches were intended for the court of Versailles, whose daily consumption was around 1000 pieces per day (for the record, Louis XIV did not like apples). Today, only 6 hectares of this lacework of walls has peach trees remaining. But on the scale of a contemporary city, it's the rib cage of a green lung. It is with passion that Luz evokes the composition of these walls made of plaster, flint and charcoal. The photographs and old plates from which she is inspired, representing drawings of espalier trees, are the symbol of an ancient horticultural tradition, of a network of human relations spanning several generations. The inhabitants nicknamed this vast very particular place: the chessboard, the human mangrove.
For Luz Moreno, who is both a culinary artist and a textile artist, her favorite themes come together: generosity, exchanges, nature, gastronomy, living history, architecture, mesh of lives. All this creates works woven from colored threads that she chooses according to their intensity and in relation to the colors, to the grain of the photographs taken on site and enlarged. She also uses copper wires during the weaving as a reminiscent of the ties that held the trained trees, to give these columns strength in places. Using a machine that was used to knit the turtlenecks Luz creates openwork columns. She has in mind to turn it into a moving and caressing forest that visitors will be invited to cross. " Catherine Dobler, Founder of the Accolade Foundation.
