GLACE

This artistic and scientific project brings together the perspectives of a glaciologist and a puppeteer on their shared exploration of ice.

Puppeteer Élise Vigneron brings ice sculptures to life in a fragile, poetic, and ephemeral setup where the figures she animates gradually melt away. Maurine Montagnat, a glaciology researcher, studies the deformation of ice and snow, whether in the lab or in remote polar ice caps and glaciers. Given their shared fascination with ice, a meeting between the artist and the scientist became inevitable.

Ice sculptures, a heating plate, ice coring, modeling, and diagrams serve as stage materials to create a dialogue that emphasizes the metaphorical and aesthetic potential of ice, revealing its physical properties and connection to climate change.

This project is part of the Transversale des réseaux Arts Sciences (T.R.A.S) initiative.