Marie Jeanne Musiol - Nebuleuses Vegetales Corps de lumiere no°665 2005-2017
Annick Lesne et Julien Mozziconacci - Human Genomics 2017
For its 20th anniversary, Le Fresnoy will present the exhibition “The Dream of Forms” at the Palais de Tokyo from June 14 to September 10, 2017. The exhibition is conceived as an imaginary landscape, a monstrous garden where perishable forms and surfaces are cultivated.
The artists and researchers who have been brought together in “The Dream of Forms” testify to their encounter with the new possibilities of representation, derived from recent scientific and technological discoveries, which shake up our way of seeing and showing. By renewing in this way the field of the perceptible –with nanotechnologies, synthetic images, 3D scans, stereolithography etc.– these new visualisations hint at as yet unknown geometries.
Images, transcriptions, modelisations, speculative forms produced by inventors and prospective scientists, derived from mathematics, physics, biology, optics or chemistry, for example, join or inspire works resulting from grafts made between art and science, or between speculation and invention, thanks to a good twenty contemporary artists.
The exhibition “The Dream of Forms” proposed at the Palais de Tokyo in the summer of 2017, plans to confront works of contemporary art from all disciplines with objects from the various fields of scientific representation and imagery. The latter, as well as works of art, in dialogue with and mixed with them without distinction of origin, will be offered to curiosity, imagination, contemplation, the traditional public of art, soliciting its speculative and playful meaning. It will be discovered that between the arts and sciences.
Within this exhibition, these primitive forms of life echo the human karyotype formalized by biologists. With their works “Human Genomics” Annick Lesne and Julien Mozziconacci allow a visualization of the three-dimensional structure of the 23 human chromosomes.
Curators: Alain Fleischer, Claire Moulène
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