Featuring previously unseen works from a creative residency in Normandy and a retrospective of his recent photographic series, Former l’hypothèse highlights the last ten years of creative work by French artist Laurent Millet (1968), and invites visitors to explore the fruitful connections between art and science.

The exhibition showcases six photographic ensembles by Laurent Millet as satellites of his scientific imagination, and reveals new creations from his residency devoted to the astonishing human and plant anatomical models of Docteur Auzoux (Eure, 1797-1880) in the collections of the Musée de l’écorché d’anatomie in Le Neubourg, Normandy.

From Graham Bell’s savant kites to Saussure’s measurement of the blue of the sky, from Jamnitzer’s polyhedra to Euclid’s geometric shapes, the work of artist Laurent Millet has been consistently mapping out the scientific world in a highly personal way for several years now. Viewed as a powerful vector of the imagination, science is for him a place of experience and quest. As much as the invention itself, his photography gives form to the long process of research, its trial and error and the solitary peregrinations it entails. It’s not unusual to come across the silhouette of the artist, always on the move, busy constructing and manipulating. Laurent Millet appears not as a commentator but as a maker, formulating his own hypotheses from his position as an artist, using shapes.

The Centre photographique Rouen Normandie would like to thank the Musée de l’écorché d’anatomie in Le Neubourg.

The exhibition is being held as part of the Normandie Impressionniste festival, for which it has received support.

AGENDA

OPENING
Friday 24th May,
from 5pm in the presence of the artist

GUIDED TOURS

Saturday 25 May, 4pm in the presence of the artist, dubbed in French Sign Language
Tuesday 2 July, 12.30pm
Thursday 12 September, 7pm
Saturday 28 September, 4pm

WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN Geometric fantasies
with Sophie Grassart , artist
For 7/12 year olds
Sunday 9 June, 2.30pm

MOVIE NIGHT Flore fantastique
in partnership with the festival Le Courtivore
Tuesday 4 June, 7pm

DUAL GUIDED TOURS
in partnership with MUNAÉ – Museum
AUZOUX, Yesterday and Today
Saturday 15 June, 3pm
departure MUNAÉ Resource Centre: 6 rue de Bihorel

Seeing in colour
Saturday 7 September, 3pm
departure MUNAÉ: 185, rue Eau de Robec

CONFERENCE
With Emanuele Coccia, philosopher
Tuesday 24 September, 7pm

All events are free.
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