Views on Château Lafite Rothschild - 2023
Antti Laitenen
Since his childhood in the Finnish forest, Antti Laitinen has developed a practice that combines Land Art and photography. Nature is both his canvas and his palette: Antti uses the raw materials of the landscape to create ephemeral installations that he immortalises by photographing them. He refers to his work as “Broken Landscapes”.
In Finland, he hunts and gathers for food from spring to autumn. The rest of the year, it is dark 24 hours a day and snow covers everything. But that doesn’t stop him from swimming in the sea at 10 degrees. This life in communion with the elements makes him a profound person who never shies away from the big questions.
At Lafite, his gaze naturally fell on the hundred-year-old willow trees that line our garden. Depicted in the engraving that adorns the label of our great wine, these trees turn green again every spring, creating caverns of tranquillity under their curtains of leaves.
