Le Rêve des formes. Art, science, etc.

" The exhibition Le Rêve des formes, presented on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Ecole du Fresnoy, is conceived as an imaginary landscape, a monstrous garden where perishable forms and germinating surfaces, protuberant organisms and flat silhouettes are cultivated.

The artists and researchers gathered in Le Rêve des formes bear witness to their encounters with new possibilities of representation, stemming from recent scientific and technical discoveries that are overturning our way of seeing and showing. By renewing the field of the perceptible - nanotechnologies, synthetic imaging, 3D scanning, stereolithography... - these new visualizations give us a glimpse of as yet unknown geometries.

Images, transcriptions, models and speculative forms produced by inventors and scholars of prospective sciences - from mathematics, physics, biology, optics and chemistry, for example - join or inspire works that result from grafts made between art and science, between speculation and invention, by some twenty contemporary artists. "

98,77

Jean-François Peyret and Alain Prochiantz take part in this exhibition under the title " 98,77 ".

The fruit of a meeting between neurobiologist Alain Prochiantz and director Jean-François Peyret, united by their fascination for primates, this mischievous encyclopedia helps us to better understand what makes us similar to the great apes, while pinpointing our presumption and holding up a disturbing mirror.

An application dedicated to the exhibition

" Today, every one of our needs is met by an application (or app). In today's smart world, there's always an app to help you solve the problem you're asking yourself. Or that you don't even have to ask yourself anymore (" what's in the fridge tonight ? "), since the solution will already have been provided by an app... We're assured that apps are of public use, and we learn that in 2017, more than 200 billion apps will have been downloaded.. So while, for example, we obediently follow the path the machine leads us down, we have time to dream, a crazy idea, of an app that would serve no purpose, a superbly useless app, an artist app, if you like, a way (humble, as humble is our proposal) of making a mockery of algorithms and the life they make for us.... "

Ahead of the Le Rêve des formes exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, a research group at Le Fresnoy brought together artists (Hicham Berrada, Julien Clauss, Daniel Dobbels, Emmanuel Guez, Arnaud Petit, Olivier Perriquet, Jonathan Pêpe, Jean-François Peyret, Dorothée Smith) and scientists from different fields (Ada Ackerman, David Chavalarias, Joseph Cohen, Jean-Paul Delahaye, Annick Lesne, Alain Prochiantz, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Raphael Zagury-Orly), to collectively explore the question of "the uncertainty of forms". Their exchanges feed into the exhibition and foreshadow the colloquium to be held on September 5, 6 and 7, 2017 at the Collège de France, at the invitation of its general administrator, neurobiologist Alain Prochiantz. The colloquium debates will be broadcast live at the Palais de Tokyo on September 6.