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Constellations

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Constellations

In Constellations, invisible exchanges are explored: those resulting from the encounter of colonies of microorganisms from the bark of the tree and the hand of man... The aim is to visualize the encounter of two environments of life foreign to each other, which the scientist M. Rillig of the Freie
Universität of Berlin calls "community coalescence", i.e. the fortuitous encounter of two communities of microorganisms belonging to two different biotopes.
This part of the project was carried out in collaboration with Ludwig Jardillier, a microbiologist in Orsay and finds a form in the Constellations installation. A penetrable geodetic structure made of cardboard provides an insight into the multiplicity of life forms and symbioses in the making. It invites us to contemplate the infinitely small as a planetarium explores the infinitely large and to reflect on how living beings interact.
In the Petri dishes, the micro-organisms of the hands of workshop participants coexist with those of the tree trunks of the territory where the dome is installed.

Ludwig Jardillier

A project supported by la Diagonale Paris-Saclay

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