I see stars in the deep dark

More than a hundred unpublished images, a new video, and illuminated display cases reminiscent of old study cabinets, unfold in space this radiant forest that also opens onto celestial panoramas that the artist extracts from enfolded details in plants. The leaves of numerous species hailing from the Laurentian forest appear in the photos surrounded by light coronas. With a camera-less process akin to the photogram, their reactions are recorded by direct contact on a film placed in an electromagnetic field. Marie-Jeanne Musiol pursues her research in a historical continuum, at the intersection of photography and electricity applied to the study of plants. She elaborates what could be a first energy botany, in the wake of the cyanotypes of algae and ferns produced by the pioneering Anna Atkins (1799-1871). Her electrodynamic photograms, which explore both the diversity of the plant world and its reactivity, offer a transformative vision of the universe where matter and light cohabit. The artist directs our gaze to the porous boundaries of plants - fluid and dematerialized matter processing information from ambient light networks.