Journeys

How to Read Poetry to Cancer Cells?

Sandra Lorenzi (FR)

| | |

What invisible threads link the life of cells to a Latin poet? What resonances do stones and cells share? Sandra Lorenzi’s artistic work explores the worlds of the living, both material and immaterial, right up to the edge of human understanding. Through her multi-faceted practice (drawings, poetry, murals, installations) she deploys imaginary worlds capable of connecting what is not yet connected, of bringing to light and into relationship what remains hidden and separated.

This film takes you to the heart of her approach. Let yourself be charmed by the song of a cricket. Be transported by a colours’ vibration. As part of the Studiotopia Art & Science Residency Programme, Sandra Lorenzi collaborates with Jean-Christophe Marine (Professor, Senior Group Leader and Director of the VIB Centre for Cancer Biology, Belgium). Their project How to Read Poetry to Cancer Cells is aligned with her approach, at the crossroads of art and science, of the real and the unreal.

By starting the content, you agree that data will be transmitted to www.youtube.com.Data Protection Declaration

How to Read Poetry to Cancer Cells?, Sandra Lorenzi (FR), ©Gilles Lorenzi

Artist and poet, Sandra Lorenzi questions our relationship to environments as a historical and political substrate, as well as fertile territory, inhabited by a multiplicity of beings. Designed from material, energetic, or symbolic entities that first seem foreign to each other, her drawings, sculptures, and installations lead us to compose alternative stories to the “great history”.  Sandra Lorenzi graduated from the National School of Art at Villa Arson (Nice) in 2009. Her work has since been shown in institutions and galleries in France and abroad. 

Credits

The project is powered by: Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), STUDIOTOPIA, a programme co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.