Essentially hybridization speaks of the otherness and of differences, of diversities or of multiplicities: The encounter of two systems; of a self which recognizes itself as such and of another, which becomes a mirror, engendering the transformation of each of its components: reciprocal adaptation, but also, for the ensemble it constituted a new way of living; a multiplication of forthcoming potentials.
Hybridization is a natural marvel. Historically, species - animals, plants, have met, fertilized, to give birth to variants: the hybrids. Thus is the biodiversity; species have constantly migrated and re-form, adapting to changes, including to geographical and climate alterations, in order to survive.
Hybridization is also an artificial phenomenon: many plant species are the result of human’s manual or genetic intervention. Since ancient times humans have also hybridized, as since prehistoric times people have mixed their genes, their identities and / or their cultures and their languages, whether through wars, exiles, colonisations, or migrations.
Man also overcomes the failures and deficiencies of his own body by hybridizing with other elements - prosthesis, extensions, or machines. Tools have been revolutionary inventions for the Homo-Erectus, just as recently, computers and other artificial intelligence devices increase the possibilities of human existence. Hybridization is therefore also found in the various fields of science, technology, computer science; combining information’s systems with other merging properties or functioning of other systems.
Since the start, human beings, who still lived in a great proximity with Nature, and of which he/she were absolutely dependent on, represented beings characterized as hybrid creatures: as many of the anthropomorphic figures are endowed with the powers of animals or of plants, with which they have merged with evolving in a world of humans and non-human spirits, and with which they believed to communicate with. Myths and mythologies, populated by many hybrid beings, are an attempt to apprehend the world, becoming the matrix of knowledge, of laws, of morals and philosophies, and they are the mirror or the recollections of humanities. Men and nature never ceased to mutually hybridize. Therefore, there is no opposition between natures and cultures, but we must consider the recognition of universalism and pluralism at once.
In education, philosophy, arts, thought, language, hybridization is, as Charlier, Deschryver and Peraya say, the result of "a fertile embarrassment"; It produces new ideas, new utilitarian objects, new lifestyles, new cultures.
Modern Artists as well have introduced into their process the mechanisms of hybridization, especially on the symbolic and imaginary level; but also in terms of their choice materials. In the field of contemporary art, hybridization involves a multiplicity of processes that transcend disciplines and interact systems, materials, gestures, knowledge and cultures. The results are the delivery of new forms, new representations and new aesthetics to confront a world that we transform as much as it transforms us.
The exhibition Mutation Hybridation offers 8 artistic projects that formally and / or intellectually question these notions through a plurality of medias: installation, virtual reality, performance, painting, sculpture, writing, video. Through these projects, artists seek sometimes to create new worlds, to question the boundaries between the disciplines and in particular those of between the arts and sciences, to question the pluralities of identities, the alterations of the natural and of human environments; Each of their explorations, whether plastic, ethical, scientific, conceptual ... offers reflective and critical tools to question realities.
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Sohail Dahdal _
Sasha Gosmant Aka Alexandra Mikhaylova_
Marie Gossart_
Annalisa Lollo_
Perola Milman / Florent Baboux/ Daniel Jea_
Florence Pierre_
Alessandra Spigai_
PARTNERS OF MÉMOIRE DE L'AVENIR - ARTS AND SOCIETY