À Mouans-Sartoux s’expose l’art extra-terrestre créé lors des résidences de l’Observatoire de l’espace
The Espace de l’art concret in Mouans-Sartoux is hosting a landmark exhibition featuring "extraterrestrial" artworks created through the Observatoire de l’espace’s residency program. Since 2006, this cultural laboratory of the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) has invited artists like Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Stéphane Thidet, and Victoire Thierrée to produce works in zero-gravity environments. These creations are born aboard parabolic flights on the Airbus A310 Zero G or via stratospheric balloons, where physical laws like gravity and atmospheric pressure are suspended.
This exhibition highlights a subversive intersection between contemporary art and scientific exploration, challenging artists to adapt their practices to extreme physical conditions. By moving beyond terrestrial constraints, the program fosters a new field of art history that explores the "absence of self" and the physical engagement of the body in weightlessness. The collection serves as a unique record of how human creativity responds to the void, offering audiences a sensory translation of experiences that occur literally out of this world.