Temps profonds et autres lumières

Artist-researcher based between Paris and Brussels, Laure Winants explores the interaction of ecosystems through the dialogue between matter and light. Her works, sensitive to their environments, respond to light, time, temperature and humidity. The collections of the Musée de Minéralogie each bear witness, in their own way, to a relationship with time: fossils, for example, evoke the vestiges of a past era that endures, while quartz, used in horology, allows us to measure the passing of time. Drawing on the abundant richness of the Museum's pieces, the artist sets three time scales in tension: the geological time of minerals and crystallisation, the biological time of marine organisms, and the contemporary time of transformations currently under way.