By Emma Boittiaux

Que l'olivier la protège

Photography, print, wax, beading, embroidery and linen
84 x 55.5 x 3 cm

£2,200.00
About the Artwork

This piece is part of Boittiaux’s project ‘Do you want one?’. An intimate and poetic quest through Provence's endangered landscape over two summers. As protagonists, her nieces, mother and partner. By photographing them, she is trying to find the answer to her harrowing question: can she bring a child in a world that is in the face of environmental collapse?
Will motherhood be the new phase of her life? In this work she sits in this liminal space, trying to find answers. This photograph was taken in her brother’s garden, under the
olive tree that he planted when his first daughter was born. Now the tree is big enough to provide shadow for the youngest to have her milk bottle. But the child's absence tells of
her struggle to grasp what the future could look like for this generation. How do we break this cycle of destruction we are in to create caring and nurturing one? One where a healed nature can also protect our children.

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Details

Medium: Photography, print, wax, beading, embroidery and linen

Year: 2026

Size: 84 x 55.5 x 3 cm

Ready to Hang: Yes

The frame is ready to hang, does not need a plinth.

Emma Boittiaux

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Emma Boittiaux (b.1995) is a London-based artist born in Normandy, France. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2017. Her photograph 'Take Care Of Your Brother' won the Portrait of Britain award in 2023. In 2025, she published her first story, 'A Quiet Rape'. She has been represented by Artiq since 2024. Boittiaux's work has been exhibited in various group shows in London such as at the ICA or with the London Heritage Quarter, as well as in France during Les Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles Off, and published in magazines like We Are by the Photographic Society WIP or PhotoVogue.

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