During several stays and residencies in Mexico City, Catherine Bodmer has produced a vast photographic documentation focusing on urban environment's green spaces of Mexico, such as parks, playgrounds and public gardens. Starting from images that expose plant market lush kiosks in the Viveros de Coyoacán, the artist continues her research around the garden theme as a manifestation of the quest for an ideal world, a utopia.—As a microcosm, the garden carries with it paradise image, the perfect place. Thus, Viveros plant market, a cooperative of around thirty small family businesses frequented mainly by bourgeois clientele becomes for the artist a place of questioning where divergent realities and perceptions are intertwined. With Synonymes exhibition, Catherine Bodmer seeks to circumscribe the market both as a concrete and symbolic place by revisiting it again and again, trying to capture its nuances, to extract its essence. In this photographic installation, the multiplication and superposition of textures, colors, words and texts evoke not only a multi-sensory and immersive experience of the place but also the social charge that it contains. Here, the bourgeois and colonialist ideology of the garden, the virtuoso staging of an idealized nature, collides with the realities and the socio-economic precariousness of the merchants and the staff who work there.