True climate archives, ice cores are cylindrical sections that are taken from the ice caps to analyze the composition of the air and temperature over thousands of years (up to 800,000 years!). Glaciologist Claude Lorius, who discovered this exploratory technique in the 1960s, proved the correlation between the rise in temperature curves and the imprisonment of greenhouse gases: human activities are indeed the cause of global warming. Fascinated by this capacity of the environment to contain our memory, the French artist Mathilde Caylou took the imprint of a hole in the ground before transforming it into a glass core. The enclosed air bubbles refer to the time that has passed and to the knowledge that landscapes hold, as long as we know how to look at them. The second work presented is a project carried out in partnership with the Charles Fabry precision optics laboratory. Thanks to their expertise in polishing, in which she was initiated, the artist creates optical illusions in the form of iridescence born around this lump of earth.

 

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