"Flowers and Cartridges" is the painful sting of roses and cartridge perforations in the hearts of the visitors in order to show them a reality other than that of the media, where everything is direct, focused and explicit. Each visitor forms his own opinion of the subtly fashioned works and leaves with varied emotions. The symbolic and silent denunciation of a violence that has lasted too long brings a great dose of motivation to push forward and to change, even on a small scale, the order of things. For many more flowers ... and fewer cartridges...
Something went very wrong. This is quite the art exhibit. I think the intentions were good. The exhibits are described in French, but my French is not so good. But I was able to understand most of it. I think they were trying to make a statement about violence in society, especially gun violence and replace it with flowers. While that's a nice sentiment, the exibits themselves are something akin to what Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy or the Green River Killer aka Ted Cruz may have come up with in their dream shop of horrors. You can grab them and hold them up close and they are very gruesomly detailed. Then you enter this empty room and a film starts playing that is somewhat confusing. Those crazy French people, Sacre Bleu!