Nec Me Fulgura  (Not even the lightning can strike me)

A pair of Louis XV-style armchairs inhabit the State Bedroom of the baroque Palais Lascaris in Nice.
They are upholstered scenes of devastation.
On one, a lightning strikes through a tree in the middle of the countryside. On the other, an image of deforestation.

The depiction of natural and man-made destructive forces is a clear response to the motto of the Lascaris family, ‘Nec Me Fulgura’.

Laurence Aëgerter turns the Lascaris motto on its head to evoke the fragile balance of life.

Text by Rebecca François