Free admission
Friday April 28, join us at the opening of the exhibition of the two winners of the Photo & Sciences Prize Richard Pak (2021) and Manon Lanjouère (2022). In the presence of the photographers, of Philippe Guionie director of the Residence 1+2 in Toulouse at the initiative of the Prize.
Richard Pak, 2021 winner, continues his cycle Islands of Desire. After The Firm (Tristan da Cunha, 2016-2017) and The archipelago of the third sex (Polynesia, 2022), The shipwrecked island (Nauru, 2022-2023) is the third chapter. The series recounts the ravaged landscapes of the micro-nation of Micronesia, devastated by excessive phosphate mining. Manon Lanjouère, 2022 winner, spent a month aboard the scientific schooner Tara between Salvador and Rio de Janeiro to observe research on microbiomes. She continues her project entitled The particles at the Roscoff Biological Station. This project sheds light on ocean plastic pollution and its impact on microorganisms. The two winners have produced sublime and disconcerting works, in front of which the viewer passes from wonder to amazement.