This installation has been created and exhibited for the first time at the Center of plastic arts Saint-Fons during the Art contemporary biennial of Lyon.
The collective examines the relationship between nature and culture, suggesting a possible evolution of life through various strata of the Anthropocene. Each element appears interdependent, creating an ecosystem in which living organisms evolve alongside machines.
The collective examines the relationship between nature and culture, suggesting a possible evolution of life through various strata of the Anthropocene. Each element appears interdependent, creating an ecosystem in which living organisms evolve alongside machines.
The structure is traversed by a system of irrigation, electric currents, and data flow that feed and grow a colony of magnetotactic bacterias on the top of the structure. Those bacterias use inner magnetosomes (small metal particles) that lead them on the way of magnetic fields.
Some magnetic flowers are providing those fields in the installation. The screens make those fields visible to the naked eye. This magnetosome technic is used by many animals including humans for a lot of specialized skills throughout evolution.
This project, as many of our own, is questionning our relationship with the living, its fragility and resilience, its power of adaptability. It is a way to rethink our place in our environment such as those bacterias, microscopic beings or even birds that feel the magnetosphere, the giant magnetic field created by our planet, protecting us from solar winds.
This project, as many of our own, is questionning our relationship with the living, its fragility and resilience, its power of adaptability. It is a way to rethink our place in our environment such as those bacterias, microscopic beings or even birds that feel the magnetosphere, the giant magnetic field created by our planet, protecting us from solar winds.
