At Present (Félix Guattari)

Installation, 2017
Samuel Bianchini
with the collaboration of Pascal Viel (CEA)

Collaboration for the technical process: Daniel Desforge (CEA)
Instrumental glassware: Bruno Coltrinari (CEA)
Collaboration for the surface chemistry: Geoffrey Barral (CEA)
Scientific mediation: François Bugeon (CEA)
Production assistant: Élodie Tincq

Acknowledgments: Cécile Baudin, Michel Delarasse, Robin Guibal, Nassim Hanifi, François Legrand, Mathieu Porchet, Jean-Luc Sida, Marie Vandermersch

With the support of CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and La Diagonale Paris-Saclay

At Present (Félix Guattari), installation, 2017
Samuel Bianchini with the collaboration of Pascal Viel (CEA)
With the support of CEA and La Diagonale Paris-Saclay
Curiositas Exhibition, Château de Button, Gif-sur-Yvette, 18-21 May 2017.
Photographs : © Samuel Bianchini - ADAGP

Who has never contemplated drops of water seeking their path down a windowpane? Drops of water fall on a glass stele; they do not seem to be moving randomly, they wander, follow invisible bends and form letters and parts of letters; they provide glimpses of words, a sentence*, the epitaph of a thinker, Félix Guattari.

Sentence, in french, from the poem "Absence" by Carlos Drummond De Andrade, in La Machine du monde et autres poèmes, Ed. Gallimard, Paris, p. 384.

At Present (Félix Guattari), installation, 2017
Samuel Bianchini with the collaboration of Pascal Viel (CEA)
With the support of CEA and La Diagonale Paris-Saclay
Curiositas Exhibition, Château de Button, Gif-sur-Yvette, 18-21 May 2017.
Photographs : © Samuel Bianchini - ADAGP

At Present (Félix Guattari), installation, 2017
Samuel Bianchini with the collaboration of Pascal Viel (CEA)
With the support of CEA and La Diagonale Paris-Saclay
Exhibition “Explore”, La Scène de recherche, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, January 2020, curated by Marc Dondey.
Photographs: © Samuel Bianchini - ADAGP