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BEYAERT-GESLIN, Anne. Of Animals and Plants: Another Regime of Enunciation.Traducido porCésar González Ochoa. Tóp. Sem [online]. 2025, n.53, pp.47-65.  Epub 03-Mar-2025. ISSN 2594-0619.  https://doi.org/10.35494/topsem.2025.1.53.892.

Today, new bodies of image-free contemporary works (installations or performances) blur the material and conceptual boundaries of art and pose anew the Goodmanian question, “When is there art?” On these statutory shores, certain works driven by an ecological sensibility also integrate what Descola (2005 and 2010) calls non-human existents, in this case plants and animals. The challenge of these works is not only to question the limits of art, where it rubs up against science, but to assume the transcendence of the notions of nature and culture in order to propose new enunciative alliances.

This article mobilizes the concept of enunciation to account for those intriguing works that renew the aesthetic experience to reveal the transcendence of life. It strives to construct the notion of regime (Fontanille, 2023) and declines three regimes of artistic enunciation, representation, ostension, and instauration, by unveiling a gradual transformation that operates by displacement. At the end of the journey, the article stops on two examples that refine the characterization of instauration: Hubert Duprat's Larves aquatiques de trichoptères avec coquille (1980-2012), elaborated with animals, and Gérard Hauray's Leçons de chausses (2022), made up of plants.

Palabras llave : enunciation; art; regime; existing non-human.

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