Forest Nest - Triptych
Interactive Artworks

Technique : Painting - Mix Media

Year : 2025 - 2026

Dimensions : 180cm x 180 cm 

Forest Nest is a triptych of three monumental paintings created by IAMPIÔ for They Host Us, as a tribute to Dr. Jane Goodall, in partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute France.

Following Dr. Goodall's passing on 1 October 2025, the work became an act of continuation as much as commemoration: a way to carry her voice forward through colour, image and collective emotion.
 

Nine voices contributed to the triptych. The first canvas was built from the words of Dr. Jane Goodall herself, who agreed to give her sentences to the project while she was still alive. The three canvases that followed gathered the voices of scientists, artists, activists and entrepreneurs: Audrey Dana, Federico Bogdanowicz Geoffroy, Lucie Lucas, Aïna Queiroz, Galitt Kenan, Jessica Serra, Santiago Lefebvre and Laurent Baheux.

IAMPIÔ wove all nine voices together into a joyful, colour-saturated triptych, where each painting holds the particular way one person sees the forest, the beautiful and the endangered, and transforms it into something that can be felt before it is understood.
 

The triptych was designed to be lived in, not only contemplated. IAMPIÔ conceived an interactive card game built in three movements: first, a playful spotting exercise that hooks curiosity and slows the gaze; then a quiz that transmits knowledge about the living world; and finally an open question that invites strangers to speak to each other, connecting people from entirely different sectors (scientists, entrepreneurs, activists, children) around the shared urgency of protecting what remains.

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The collection was completed by the ceramic sculpture 4 Reasons of Hope, which functioned as a participative nest receiving visitors' written responses to the question "What is the forest poetry for you?"

Together, the full Forest Nest collection was presented in world premiere at ChangeNOW 2026, Grand Palais, Paris, before an audience of 40,000 visitors over three days. It was a particular honour to share this premiere in the presence of Merlin van Lawick, Jane Goodall's grandson, who attended the event.

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They Host Us is a creative platform that believes art is a powerful way to generate emotion in service of protecting the living world. By transforming words, voices and encounters into monumental paintings, They Host Us uses colour, pigment and collective narrative to make ecological engagement joyful, sensory and desirable.