Artistic commission : Hormonobotanik.wiki

In 2025, Contant supported the work of Flo*Souad Benaddi, Leo Ren O’faigain and Doriane Timmermans within Hormonobotanik.

Hormonobotanik is a project focusing on medicinal plants, their phytohormonal properties and their uses in transition processes. This long-term artistic research, initially begun out of necessity, has taken the form of visual installations as well as textile objects and publications, which have circulated in queer circles.

It started with Leo Ren and Flo*Souad cooking for and with people who like to mess around with their hormones and gender. The recipes came from their self-taught research on phytohormones and their Moroccan and Japanese cultural influences. In order to share these recipes, they organised participatory workshops and public events.
Together, they compiled a corpus which stimulated the desire to create a wiki; to document and preserve what was happening and what they wanted to happen. Doriane Timmermans joined the project in 2023 as a friend and collaborator to discuss the first temporary web platform and then to work on the creation of the wiki, supported by Constant.

This wiki is part archive, part working tool, but also a recipe book. It is a space that allows them to name and bring to life their work and that of others, in a simple and viable way.