Exposition ImmersION : dialogue entre liberté créative et rigueur scientifique

A dialogue between scientists and artists, the ImmersION exhibition can be discovered from 26 June to 31 October 2026 at L'Aiguillage. It stems from a project led by Lilay Gros-Desormeaux, a PhD student at the Materials and Quantum Phenomena laboratory, in collaboration with the artistic creation and dissemination venue L'Aiguillage, whose artists were welcomed into the laboratory.

The art and science exhibition ImmersION will run from 26 June to 31 October 2026 at L'Aiguillage.

This project brings together around thirty artistic works inspired by scientific research conducted within the Trapped Ions division of the Quantum Information Technology (QITe) team at the Materials and Quantum Phenomena laboratory, with the aim of conveying to the public the sensitive and wondrous dimension of their working environment and scientific questions.

The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in the laboratory's universe through several artistic mediums: vibrant laser colours splash across paintings and pigment canvases, the gold-covered surfaces of ion traps are captured through artists' lenses, the clicking of switches that punctuate our sequences transforms into a soundscape, while visitors wander between racks and oscilloscopes in an immersive virtual reality experience.

The project is led by Lilay Gros-Desormeaux, a PhD student at the Materials and Quantum Phenomena laboratory (UMR 7162, Université Paris Cité / CNRS) within the QITee team.

This project was carried out in collaboration with L'Aiguillage, a centre for artistic creation and dissemination, whose artists were welcomed into the laboratory to discover the instruments, experiments, and underlying physical concepts.

The works presented are the result of this dialogue between creative freedom and scientific rigour. Event poster; Credits: L'Aiguillage