Cloud control

Cloud Control is an exhibition that explores the challenges of geoengineering and questions our relationship with natural resources transformed, diverted, or overexploited by human activity.

At the crossroads of science, photography, and poetry, the exhibition explores humanity's capacity to intervene in atmospheric phenomena.

At the heart of this research, artificial cloud seeding — the injection of silver iodide particles to induce rain — becomes the starting point for a reflection on our desire to control living systems.

Drawing on meteorological archives, experimental photographic processes, and sensitive materials such as agar-agar-based bioplastic, the works blur the boundaries between scientific document and fiction.

Images are altered, transformed until they lose their status as evidence to become objects where truth wavers.

The exhibition also revisits the history of climate modification technologies, from 19th-century hail cannons to contemporary experiments, highlighting their ecological, political, and ethical implications.

Among the works presented, a garment made from a 1960s trench coat pattern, composed of period press articles and recent publications, evokes the human consequences of artificial rain modification experiments.

Between protection, laboratory, and memory, it gathers traces of a history that remains largely unknown. Cloud Control questions our desire to control natural phenomena and invites us to rethink the relationships between science, power, environment, and image.

With the support of: Les Ateliers Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris · Mairie du 13ᵉ arrondissement de Paris · Conseil de quartier 13e - 2 Butte aux cailles Daviel Boussingault