Ce cerisier au pied duquel..., 2021

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About this artwork

Title: Ce cerisier au pied duquel était attaché une pancarte sur laquelle on pouvait lire « Je suis un cerisier de 30 ans et je veux vivre » a été abattu en septembre 2021 afin de permettre la construction d'une piscine d’entraînement pour les Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024, jardin ouvrier des Vertus, Aubervilliers, 19 juin 2021. (This cherry tree, at the foot of which was attached a sign reading "Je suis un cerisier de 30 ans et je veux vivre" (I'm a 30-year-old cherry tree and I want to live), was felled in September 2021 to make way for the construction of a training pool for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Jardin ouvrier des Vertus, Aubervilliers, June 19, 2021.)

Series Jardins ouvriers des Vertus.

As the climate crisis is getting worse and biodiversity is collapsing, more than 10,000m² of community garden are threatened by the construction of a solarium for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, a Grand Paris Express train station and an office and hotel district.Bulldozers from Spie Batignolles are preparing to destroy one of the finest examples of community garden still existing in the Ile-de-France region. These Community Garden, now known as Garden to Defend (GAD), are located less than two kilometers from Paris, in Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis (93). GAD Aubervilliers was evicted on September 2. In the space of a few hours, the shacks with their long working-class history, the old trees and the land of the gardens were destroyed by bulldozers
- text from the website of the group « Defense of Aubervilliers Community Garden »

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