Adrien Missika’s Jardin d’Hiver is an installation formed by three vertical structures that evoke the few flowerpots designed by Burle Marx for his property in Guaratiba. Unknown, very little documented and currently abandoned, these vertical gardens, all in metal, combined the architecture’s verticality with the vegetation’s luxuriance, using black for the structures and contrasting bright colours for the flowerpots.
By replacing the structures’ metal with construction bamboo used in developing countries for building scaffolds, and assembling the different pieces using string tied according to a traditional technique, Adrien Missika creates a striking contrast that can be seen in contemporary buildings that are built using ancestral techniques and elements taken from nature.

The colourful resin pots are handcrafted by the artist in his studio. As for the plants, Missika adopted the same line of thinking as Burle Marx, choosing solely indigenous plants, mainly specific fern species commonly found in Île-de-France. These green towers thus evoke more or less the utopian concepts of vertical gardens and green cities.