05.17.22
Natsuko Uchino & Marc-André Selosse
Mycélium + Art
What can we learn from mycelium? What virtues could it have for our biological heritage?
Visual artist Natsuko Uchino and biologist Marc-André Selosse, who specializes in botany, are invited to share their approaches between art and science, and highlight new ways of producing and creating in the face of the climate emergency.
Speakers
Natsuko Uchino is an interdisciplinary artist and Professor of sculpture and ceramics at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design, Le Mans, living between Paris and the South of France. Born in Japan in 1983, she graduated from Cooper Union in New York in 2007 and from the CCA Kitakyushu research programme in Japan in 2012. Uchino’s practice, defined by experiences in agriculture and crafts, relates art to ecology, food and conviviality through the use of ceramics. Her work takes the form of installations, films and performances combining the multiple materialities of sculpture, the functional and the living object. She’s a founding member of the organization Art and Agriculture (NY) and she has exhibited in numerous reknown institutions such as the Elaine -MGK Basel, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, Jardin des Plantes, Paris (FIAC-Hors les Murs), Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille. She is represented by Galerie Allen, Paris.
