l’éternel retour-English
GUILLAUME COUSIN
L’Éternel Retour
Exhibition in La Roche-sur-Yon, from 24 September to 1 October.
Free admission (information here)
Premiere of the performance directed by Maxime Mansion
Thursday 24 September at 7pm
and Friday 25 at 7pm.
Free with booking (book here)
L’Éternel Retour explores the origin of life and our deep connection to the evolution of species. The work reminds us that our story does not begin at birth: it is part of a biological continuity carried by DNA, a living memory that each generation rewrites.
During embryonic development, cells organise themselves and communicate autonomously, following genetic information. All vertebrate embryos pass through a common stage, evidence of a shared evolutionary origin.
The installation has two complementary parts:
- A visual installation using a liquid mirror of ferrofluids whose surface, set in motion by magnetic fields, creates shadows, vibrations and waves of light evoking cellular time and the processes of the living.
- A sound installation made of four acoustic instruments that play the tree of life and the evolution of species as a musical score, making audible the long, geological time of evolution.
Together they offer a sensitive reflection on the links between genetic memory, embryonic development and the evolutionary history of the living
Concept | Creation: Guillaume COUSIN
Composition: Clément ÉDOUARD
An original art/science creation, Millénaire, with: GREYC, ENSICAEN, CNRS.
Production: Station Mir, Studio To Think To Do (2T2D)
Coproduction: Stéréolux, Drac Pays de la Loire, City of La Roche-sur-Yon
Project development & networking: Oblique/s
Delegated technical coordination: Manœuvre
Biologists: Jean-Léon MAITRE (Institut Curie)
Denis DUBOULE (Collège de France)
Performance:
Text: Guillaume Cousin
Direction: Maxime Mansion
Readers: Pauline Coffre and Hadar Gabay
Voice recording: Tom Leclerc
Composition and arrangement: Clément Édouard
