Work of art by Miguel Chevalier installed at the Institut Pasteur

The "Organoid" project initiated by Institut Pasteur, led by Olivier Schwartz and the artist Fabrice Hyber and supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, offers new representations of the research carried out at the Institut Pasteur from the perspective of artists. In connection with the project, artist Miguel Chevalier has created a digital work that has been set up in the CIS hall since July 2.
Miguel Chevalier, a graduate of the Paris-based Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, uses computer technology as an artistic means of expression. He is internationally known as a pioneer of virtual and digital art.

The work, entitled Cosmologie du Vivant 2020 ("Cosmology of the Living World 2020"), blends scientific research with digital art, medical imaging and the imaginary and esthetic universe of Miguel Chevalier, as developed since the 1980s.

The digital artwork is inspired by the Institut Pasteur's research on the biology of microorganisms and the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

Miguel Chevalier
Cosmologie du Vivant 2020
Virtual reality work – 25-minute video
Work produced in connection with the "Organoid" program, supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation with the aim of encouraging encounters and dialog between art and science.
 
Software: Claude Micheli
Technical production: Voxels Productions
Courtesy Galerie Keza (Paris)

The work is inspired by the results of research by the Institut Pasteur's scientists.
The images and video microscopy – cell receptors, viruses (coronaviruses, HIV, Zika), bacteria, infected cells, tumor cells, lymphocytes and other components of the immune system – serve as a basis for artistic creation in a perpetual process of transformation.
"Cosmologie du Vivant 2020" is a symbiosis between art and the invisible world of molecules, cells and microbes.

Photos : Institut Pasteur, François Gardy, Adeline Fougère, Elias Cottin