À l'Écoute du Vivant — Biomimétisme, Entre Arts et Sciences

For 3.5 billion years, living nature has evolved and developed ingenious strategies for adaptation. This capacity for innovation has long inspired humans in the design of materials, tools and technologies. Since the 1990s, this research has been structured around biomimicry, a concept defined by the American researcher Janine Benyus, which consists of drawing inspiration from the way living things function in order to imagine more sustainable models.

At the crossroads of art and science, this exhibition brings together the work of Pierre Jean Giloux, Jérémy Gobé and Paula Nishijima. Their practices draw on close observation of our surroundings and explore different ways of rethinking our relationship with the living world.

Through a range of media, notably the creation of biomaterials, their works invite us to "learn to see" nature differently and to reflect on the interdependent relationships that connect us to the living world.

Devised by the Quai des Savoirs and Les Abattoirs, the exhibition highlights the richness of the dialogue between art and science and opens up avenues for imagining ways of living that are more respectful of the living world.

Owing to building works in the exhibition space of the Quai des Savoirs, the exhibition À l'écoute du vivant is taking place at Les Abattoirs.