Matériaulogie des images

La Cellule

This exhibition presents the results of two years of research in art and creation, as part of the Matériaulogie des images project, led by some forty researchers and students. Born of the encounter between Sophie Lécole Solnychkine’s research in aesthetics Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès) and Yannick Vernet’s La Cellule laboratory (École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie), this project explores the image through matter. It examines the relationship between images and the world’s materials (earth, plants, biological processes) as active forces. By rethinking the image through these substances, the project invites an ecocentric and interdisciplinary approach, integrating aesthetics, science and ecological humanities. This approach aims to reveal the interrelationships between image forms and their environments, by experimenting with new ways of producing and understanding images, as close as possible to the elements of the living world. Project funded by the French Ministry of Culture as part of the “Research in art and design schools“ (RADAR).