L’orchidée souterraine. In Vitro et les paradoxes d’une utopie écologique palestinienne
Article by Joan Grandjean appears in the latest issue of Écologie & Politique (no. 72, 2026), edited by Perrine Wilhelm.
A new article by Joan Grandjean appears in the latest issue of Écologie & Politique (no. 72, 2026), a thematic volume edited by Perrine Wilhelm on science fiction and ecological utopias. Entitled “L’orchidée souterraine. In Vitro et les paradoxes d’une utopie écologique palestinienne” (“The Underground Orchid: In Vitro and the Paradoxes of a Palestinian Ecological Utopia”), Grandjean examines In Vitro (2019) directed by Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind as a key work of contemporary Palestinian science fiction.
First presented at the 58th Venice Biennale, the film portrays a post-catastrophic Palestine where ecological reconstruction and the persistence of memory unfold within an underground bunker. The analysis highlights how the film intertwines environmental regeneration, transgenerational trauma, and anticolonial resistance, proposing an ecological utopia in which political emancipation and ecological repair are inseparable.
Joan Grandjean. “L’orchidée souterraine. In Vitro et les paradoxes d’une utopie écologique palestinienne”, in Perrine Wilhelm (ed.), Écologie & Politique, no. 72, 2026, p. 127–147.
