(Sails and Light)
Inspired by circumnavigation and designed using recycled materials, Voiles Lumière is a sensory invitation to embark on a voyage towards less linear, more circular models.
ChangeNOW brings together artists and designers Myriam Le Pihive and Alice Bleton to create a four-handed, monumental and immersive space. They explore the sensory relationship with space through the language of colour, the interplay of volumes, tensions and balances, to evoke energies and the subtle relationships between objects and beings, humans and nature.
This installation is participatory and will be co-created by you and all the participants in the Summit over the 3 days.
Voiles Lumière is the result of a collaboration between the artists and partners who share the same values:
Hors Studio (Rebecca Fezart and Élodie Michaud) is a design, research and crafts studio specialising in the creation of biomaterials from waste. Inspired by a 16th-century Swedish recipe, they invented Leatherstone®, an innovative material that recycles leather scraps from high end maroquinerie. Polymorphic, the Leatherstone® suits a wide range of decorative and design applications. It has water and fire resistance properties.
At ChangeNOW, Hors Studio will be presenting a scenography to be contemplated and caressed, somewhere between the future and ruins of the past.
In the Sports zone, Constance Guisset Studio has imagined a surprising, sustainable and playful installation with games at adult level. The French designer has used circular flooring solutions designed to be easily collected and recycled at the end of their life.
This space was developed in close collaboration with Tarkett.
After her “anthropocite” sculpture in 2022, Caroline Desnoëttes returns to ChangeNOW with a new R&D project bridging academic research with industrial application, using art to unite institutions that didn’t speak to each other: algae research centres and the music industry!
Caroline Desnoëttes’ low-tech musical installation, a bio-baste work of art, takes algae to another dimension, and us with it.
With the support of the Institute of Chemical Sciences at the University of Rennes 1, Station biologique de Roscoff CNRS – Sorbonne.
With the kind participation of Discomaton, Les Matériaux Parisiens, Kevin Cascella, bio-acoustician Olivier Adam and MPO
Artist Côme Di Meglio works with a mysterious living material: mycelium. His work at the Summit is a sensory immersion specially designed for ChangeNOW, enabling us to hear and touch subterranean truths, revealed by the oracular properties of a network that connects the roots of trees, and why not those of humans?
With the precious support of Ruinart
The official poster of ChangeNOW 2024, the central totem, the Eiffel Stage monumental windows and The Planet Ocean exhibition were created by artivist Janina Rossiter.
Janina Rossiter raises awareness about ocean issues and promotes behavior changes to protect the planet. Through her art, she communicates environmental messages in a universally understandable visual language. She’s also the author and illustrator of best seller children’s books.
SINK / RISE is the third chapter of The Day May Break, an ongoing portrait series by Nick Brandt, focusing on people living off the coasts of the Fijian islands whose homes, land and livelihoods are being sunk and lost as water rises. It was an incredible technical feat that everyone and everything was actually shot with a camera underwater.
This exhibition was made possible thanks to the precious help of polka galerie
Produced during a residency in Chad and Senegal, the “Trees of Life” exhibition by photographer Nicolas Henry highlights the importance of acacias to ecological and social ecosystems of the Sahel. A key player in the “Great Green Wall”, together with the baobab tree and the balanites tree, they combat desertification, also providing the ingredients for local medicine and a source of additional income, particularly for women.
Photographs by Fabrice Leseigneur.
Texts by Christophe Servell
This photographic exhibition takes us on a journey “back to the origins” of specialty coffee to discover “new coffee growers” who are no longer under the thumb of lobbies and globalised roasters. It also underlines how consumers must take responsibility for their own purchasing behaviour towards a non-vital mass consumer product.
Could this new industry – which is breaking down and subverting the conventions of a traditional industry that has run out of steam – inspire a trend towards more sustainable food on a wider scale?
The exhibition was made possible thanks to the contribution of Terres de Café
ChangeNOW is a social enterprise that accelerates the environmental and social transition.
ChangeNOW communities is a non-profit association governed by the French law of 1901. Its aim is to facilitate and organize educational, artistic, cinematographic or scientific projects of general interest that promote the protection of the natural environment. N°RNA : W942010521