Dancing with the Invisible

 

This was my first European project:a travelling exhibition developed between 2003 and 2005 with Città della Scienza and teams from Paris, Bordeaux, and Grenoble. 

 

Nanotechnology was still a mystery then, full of promises and fears, and in Grenoble, where new labs were rising, the debate was already fierce. My task was to help design an exhibition that gave people space to think and speak for themselves. I used the African idea of "l’arbre à palabre":the tree of conversation, as a model, turning the exhibition into a place where visitors could question, doubt, and imagine.

 

It was also my first time curating art and science together: we worked with contemporary dancers to bring to life the story of Richard Feynman and the infinitely small. I still remember the high school students laughing at first, then leaning forward, captivated. That day, I understood that art could carry people where explanation alone could not. Since then, it’s rare for me to show science without art, or art without science.