It has been more then a year that Anna Pavlova has been working on… "Invasion". A poetic and committed story, interpreted by unique pieces in ceramic, glass and fine stones. A story that evokes this recognized phenomenon in biology, of invasive species in fauna or flora, very often introduced into nature by man.

Originally conceived as an environmental project, this work takes on another meaning and connects to world news. Consciously or unconsciously the artist retranslates the sudden attacks that surround us all. The beauty and fragility of ceramics and glass strangely resembles that of today's world.

If this artistic project evokes the way in which sometimes even minor rearrangements can fundamentally modify the fauna and flora, it imposes itself above all as an artistic metaphor of the past months. An invisible aggression of unknown origin and a very visible human aggression, both of which destabilize our entire universe. We didn't expect that.

Human contact is not always deliberately destructive, it is nonetheless an invasion, due to the very strong human influence on nature.

Yes... The presence of man on a territory standardizes all the flora and fauna, the most adaptable species survive and the most fragile disappear. It is a kind of “mass market” that human civilization surrounds itself with, wherever it is.

How can a few aquarium fish released into a pond or a few caterpillars escaped from a laboratory affect the world? Nature is a powerful and very precise mechanism, which must be observed and protected, from which we constantly learn about ourselves. Let's be careful and cautious about it.

It is not necessary to look in each piece presented for the direct quotation of an animal. Sometimes, it is deliberately visible, as for these two mirrors with rabbit ears or for the Mauritius owl, but the universe of Anna Pavlova is in no way descriptive. She does not reproduce a disappeared owl, or a destructive fish, but wants to capture the very essence of nature.

By reproducing the disarray and imbalance of a disappearance, the appearance of an unforeseen domination, she wants to question us about “the nature of nature”.

The little cabinet of curiosities that we have prepared for you in the Jardins du Palais Royal will tell you about the Invasion... and not only in Nature...