As part of the 4th season of "Créateurs Urgence Climat" programme (October 2023 - May 2024)initiated by the Fondation, artist Lia Giraud and author Marie Rebecchi will come together to discuss about the subject "Algægraphies and the power of plants: for an ecology of images"
A new type of "living image" has emerged in Lia Giraud's artistic practice. Her algae prints are produced by photosensitive living organisms that participate in the formation of the image: "micro-algae, usually used as pollution markers, replace the photographic silver grain to reveal an image that has become alive". Because if ecology needs images, there are techniques for producing them that can reveal both the vitality of the world and its heterochronies that offer solutions.
Created in 2020 by the Fondation Thalie, this series of conversations between artists, designers and scientists committed to a post-carbon society aims to pass on new thinking and knowledge to inspire a whole new generation of creators, to invent imaginaries of transition, and to design and implement new ways of producing in the light of depleting natural resources. The great ecological challenge of our time.
Based on a curatorial proposal by Fondation Thalie, this fourth season hosted at the École des Arts Décoratifs is organised by Chiara Vecchiarelli, coordinator of the programme Creators facing the climate emergency, in co-construction with Patrick Laffont-DeLojo, teacher in stage design at the École des Arts Décoratifs.
