Designing the Living [La Fabrique du vivant]

Designing the Living [La Fabrique du vivant]
As part of "Mutations/Creations 3"
Groupshow featuring Julian Charrière, curated by Marie-Ange Brayer and Olivier Zeitoun
20.02.2019 - 15.04.2019 at Centre Pompidou, Paris

In the digital era, a new interaction is emerging between creation and the fields of life science, neuroscience and synthetic biology. The focus now lies on matter itself. The notion of ‘living’ takes on a new form of artificiality, somewhere between inertia and momentum.

Discover an archaeology of living things and artificial life in an exhibition that presents, in a forward-looking manner, the recent works of fifty creators along with the research coming from scientific laboratories. The very material of the exhibition is evolving, certain works being involved in a process of growth or degeneration. One hundred projects are exhibited, several of which have been designed for the occasion