Caroline Desnoëttes is a socially conscious and optimistic artist who, for the past dozen years, has been exploring the coevolution of living things through a radical, understated, and contemporary technique. Closely connected to her audience, she openly shares the creative process and meaning behind her works through accessible yet always thought-provoking presentations.

The hybridization of plants, humans, and other animals lies at the heart of her work, serving as both a tribute and a manifesto to draw attention to threatened habitats, species, and resources. Her performances, installations, and exhibitions evoke the symbiotic relationship among living things as they intertwine within an ecosystem.

Caroline Desnoëttes develops and experiments with a wide range of innovative media and biomimetic techniques. She pushes the boundaries of paper by causing cascades of thousands of colored droplets to bloom, thanks to her “living tapestry” technique. She crumples, weaves, and reinterprets survival blankets—fragile, protective membranes of life. She repurposes and braids seaweed. Her drawings of hybrids are unusual encounters with our distant, imaginary cousins.

Caroline Desnoëttes’ work is, ultimately, an ongoing exploration that fosters a dialogue between art and science: she collaborates with researchers from the CNRS, the Sorbonne, Ifremer, the Roscoff Biological Station, the Universities of Rennes and Perpignan, as well as stakeholders in the circular economy to discover, invent, and transform regenerative materials into works of art, anchoring her practice in an ecological, collective, and interdisciplinary approach.

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