Duy Anh Nhan Duc at Bourges’ Jacques-Cœur Palace

In Bourges, the Jacques-Cœur Palace is hosting an exhibition by Duy Anh Nhan Duc, a visual artist whose practice draws on plant matter and vegetal forms. The project spreads through several rooms and passageways of the monument, so the works are encountered as part of a route rather than in a single gallery space.

That kind of installation is of particular interest to artists and to people who look closely at drawing and painting, because it places the act of seeing within architecture. The works are not read as isolated objects: they unfold in relation to the building’s scale, circulation and surfaces.

The vegetal subject also invites a different way of thinking about representing living forms without freezing them. In a historic setting like the Jacques-Cœur Palace, this can sharpen attention to shape, texture and light, all of which matter to the craft of image-making.