Julie Everaert
In nature, the forms of life that interest me are those with a rhizomatic structure (algae, fungi, plankton, corals, plants, etc.).
The development of living things (birth, reproduction, multiplication, proliferation) has a unique organization that I wish to highlight by exploiting the potential of certain biological capacities, specific to each organism.
My approach explores new ways of interacting with these different kingdoms:
– seek new visual representations by modeling and printing them in 3D at different scales,
– imagine narrative processes mixing fiction and reality by integrating programming, algorithms and soft robotics,
– experiment with display contexts that offer new relationships between plants, fungi, planktonics and humans through interaction.
In the era of the Anthropocene and the genetic scissors, strange organic forms appear. Through collaboration with science researchers, it is a question of questioning the ambivalence of the living and the artificial and of imagining a possible symbiosis between the duality of nature and new technologies. My practice explores these ambiguities through the prism of a poeticized hybrid mimicry, in a future where species continue to transform and evolve.