@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2019.0384, TITLE={Living forms}, AUTHOR={Jean-Charles Hameau, Kimberley Harthoorn, }, JOURNAL={Art and Science}, VOLUME={3}, NUMBER={Issue 1
}, YEAR={2019}, URL={https://openscience.fr/Living-forms}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2019.0384}, ISSN={2515-8767}, ABSTRACT={The Formes vivantes (Living forms) exhibition, which will open on October 9th, 2019 at the Musée national Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, France, aims at exploring the relationship between ceramics and the living, from the Renaissance until today. This article will lay out the main axes of the exhibition project : naturalist objects, from images resembling the living to castings of living beings ; works showing how an organic imagination is born from the recomposition of shapes found in nature ; the influence of visual revolutions that brought to sight invisible dimensions of the living, anatomical, microscopic or genetic. The exhibition will show that ceramics can also be an innovative realm of contemporary creation. We also hope to demonstrate how the ceramic material in itself, because of its physical and chemical properties, can play a role in crossing boundaries between the living and the non-living, conceptually, but also in practice, for instance with the emergence of biomedical ceramics. Such a transdisciplinary approach, following the latest developments in artistic creation and scientific research, will allow us to study our relationship to the idea of living, in the light of recent scientific discoveries, but also from a political, ethical and aesthetical point of view.}}