The duo Ittah Yoda presents a work as part of the exhibition “Plants and People,” which brings together pieces from the respective collections of the Frac des Pays de la Loire and the Musée d’Arts de Nantes.

At the museum, this convergence of perspectives explores the concepts of conservation and preservation, drawing on the metaphor of the plant. A poetic and peaceful plea, this exhibition brings together works that capture the relationship between plants and people, revealing invisible tensions, the resilience of the fragile, the precarious balance of life, and the desire to preserve what may be destined to disappear. At the Frac, the animal aspect is revealed and weaves its narrative around the theme of vulnerability. The exhibition weaves a network of metamorphoses where man and beast merge in a disconcerting game of mirrors. Anthropomorphism is no longer a mere device here, but an invitation to identification, a way of probing empathy where the boundary between “us” and “them” dissolves. For if the animal is our double, its fate may foreshadow our own—a cruel fable, where extinction is no longer an abstraction, but an omen.