Opening Reception for the “LIVING THE TIME” Exhibition
"Living the Time" brings together works that explore the phenomena shaping our climate system. It presents itself as a collection of invisible stories that reveal the forces and temporalities at work in our world.
This project explores the natural mechanisms and phenomena linking the ocean and the atmosphere: energy distribution, thermohaline circulation, the carbon pump, and natural cycles. The AMOC, or “Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation,” is a system of ocean currents that includes the Gulf Stream. It plays a crucial role in the global redistribution of heat, contributing to the temperate climate of Western Europe.
After exploring the interactions between the biosphere and the atmosphere through projects such as *Vertical Environment* and research in the Mont Blanc massif, this project returns to the oceans to examine the environment on local, global, and temporal scales. The project explores the elements that constitute the verticality of the landscape as a systemic whole in a world where the pace of change has accelerated and humanity has become on par with a geological force.
Students fromTU CreativeTU and the SCRIBES association will produce written works during a writing workshop attended by the photographer. These works will be on display in Building 36 for the duration of the exhibition.
Students in the Geological Hazards and Geodynamics master’s programs will create animated eco-poems that will be screened during the public opening day on Saturday, May 24, 2025.
François WINANTS
François Winants (BE, 1987) is a Belgian artist who graduated from La Cambre. His work explores the climate system and paleoclimatology, at the intersection of art, design, engineering, and science. Straddling abstraction and objectivity, he creates works that question our relationship with natural phenomena.
His work has been exhibited at venues including the Art & Marges Museum in Brussels (BE, 2014), the KIKK Festival in Namur (BE, 2019), Art Souterrain in Montreal (CA, 2020), and SIM in Reykjavik (IS, 2023–24), and in solo exhibitions such as *Vertical Environment* at the Tahanfagne Experimental Arboretum (BE, 2022) and *Point de rosée* (BE, 2024) at the Théâtre de Liège during the Biennale de L’image Possible in Liège.
He has participated in residencies such as “Imagining Ecological Futures” in Namur, organized by the KIKK Festival, the Abattoirs de Bomel, and the Goethe-Institut (BE, 2019), the Millefeuilles in Nantes (FR, 2020), the RAVI in Liège (BE, 2020), the Bel Ordinaire in Pau (FR, 2021), the Centre Bang / BPS22 in Chicoutimi (CA, 2023), the SIM in Reykjavik (IS, 2023–24), etc.