As part of the Nuit Blanche des Chercheurs-es, an “ART & SCIENCE” conference presented by Yann PELLEGRIN (CNRS researcher, CEISAM laboratory, Nantes University) and Sophie KERAUDREN-HARTENBERGER (visual artist), will take place on Thursday February 6 at 5:45pm at Stéréolux (Micro room), 4 Bd Léon-Bureau, Nantes.
Alchemy, a fusion of science and mysticism, initiated modern chemistry by proposing the transformation of matter. Art and science also merge, through the work of Sophie Keraudren-Hartenberger and Yann Pellegrin. One explores the visible metamorphosis of materials, while the other, at the CEISAM laboratory, transforms light into chemical energy. Both question the future of matter and energy through their transformations. Come and take part in this inspiring exchange and discover the intersection of two worlds.
Sophie Keraudren-Hartenberger was born in Fréjus Saint-Raphaël in 1990. She lives and works in Nantes at the city’s Bonus workshops. In 2016, she graduated from the DNSEP program at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint Nazaire. In 2011, she trained at the Ateliers de Sèvres preparatory class in Paris. Sophie Keraudren-Hartenberger’s work lies at the crossroads of art, science and technology. The artist’s research focuses on matter. Her installations (sculptures, drawings, paintings, photographs and videos) explore a vision of the infinite, between the visible and the invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible. She sees mineralogy as a metaphor for a journey into the infinitely large and the infinitely small, between depth and distance, into the nothingness to which the landscape is reduced.
An Art Science conference in collaboration with Nuit des Chercheur-es, the CEISAM Chemistry and Interdisciplinarity Synthesis, Analysis and Modeling Laboratory, Nantes University, Université d’Angers and the CNRS.