<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>French artist JR's participatory tree installation titled Adventice, composed of 10,000 scanned hands from around the world, grows in Montpellier's Carr Sainte-Anne after seven years of restoration.</li><li>The tree of hands symbolizes rootedness, migration, and collective identity, with each hand representing an individual story and creating a connected structure that evolves with new visitors adding their scanned hands.</li><li>Adventice connects the historical arrival of foreign seeds through the medieval textile trade in Montpellier to the concept of cultural exchange and migration, using ecological phenomena as a metaphor for external influences shaping the city's identity.</li><li>Alongside the central installation, Adventice includes five new works by JR in wood and paper, expanding on the themes of human connection and cultural exchange presented in the exhibition.</li></ul>

participatory tree of scanned hands by JR grows in montpellier’s former church

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