Exposition ImmersION : dialogue entre liberté créative et rigueur scientifique

A dialogue between scientists and artists, the ImmersION exhibition is to 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 be held 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 Technologies (QITe) team at the Materials and Quantum Phenomena laboratory, with the ambition of conveying to the public the sensitive and wonderful dimension of their working environment and their scientific questions.

The exhibition invites the public to immerse themselves in the world of the laboratory through several artistic mediums: the vibrant colours of lasers splash onto canvases in paint and pigments, the gold-covered surfaces of ion traps are captured by the artists' lenses, the clicking of switches that punctuate our sequences transforms into a soundscape, while visitors wander among 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 venue for artistic creation and dissemination, whose artists were welcomed into the laboratory to discover its instruments, experiments, and the underlying physical concepts.

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