LIVING THE TIME" EXHIBITION opening
Living the time brings together works on the phenomena that structure our climate system. It is presented as a collection of invisible stories that reveal the forces and temporalities that inhabit our world.
This project explores natural mechanisms and phenomena between 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 redistribution of global heat, contributing to the temperate climate of Western Europe.
After having worked on the interactions between the biosphere and the atmosphere with projects such as Vertical Environment or on the Mont-Blanc massif, this project returns to the oceans to question the environment on local, global and temporal scales. The project approaches the verticality of the landscape as a systemic whole in a world where temporalities have accelerated and humans have become the equal of a geological force.
Students from theTU d'écriture créative and the SCRIBES association will produce texts in a writing workshop in the presence of the photographer. They will be on display in building 36 for the duration of the exhibition.
Students from the Geological Hazards and Geodym Masters programs will create animated eco-poems that will be screened on the public opening day, Saturday May 24, 2025.
François WINANTS
François Winants (BE, 1987) is a Belgian artist and graduate of La Cambre. His work explores the climate system and paleoclimatology, at the crossroads of art, design, engineering and science. Between abstraction and objectivity, he develops works that question our relationship with natural phenomena.
His work has been exhibited at the Musée Art & Marges in Brussels (BE, 2014), the KIKK Festival in Namur (BE, 2019), Art Souterrain in Montreal (CA, 2020), the SIM in Reykjavik (IS, 2023-24), and in solo shows 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 benefited from residencies such as "Imagining Ecological Futures" in Namur, organized by the KIKK Festival, les Abattoirs de Bomel and the GoetheInstitut (BE, 2019), Millefeuilles in Nantes (FR, 2020), RAVI in Liège (BE, 2020), Bel Ordinaire in Pau (FR, 2021), Centre Bang / BPS22 in Chicoutimi (CA, 2023), SIM in Reykjavik (IS, 2023-24), etc.