Fragments célestes brings together photographs of meteorites and ceramic sculptures, establishing a dialogue between matter, memory, and our relationship to science.
As an artist-researcher, Sandrine Elberg experiments, adjusts, and combines photographic processes to shape an imaginary space-time that is both unsettling and soothing. Photographed in extreme close-up, meteorites from various collections reveal their hidden beauty and invisible scars.
These Fragments célestes, fallen to Earth after a long and tumultuous journey through space, become silent witnesses to our shared history and origins. Facing them, the ceramics evoke other, more organic fragments — terrestrial, even imaginary. They are rooted in a simple and ancestral gesture: the transformation of earth by fire.
In the tension between these two perceptions ( photography and sculpture ) and these two materials — one extraterrestrial, the other shaped by human hands — Sandrine Elberg proposes a reflexion on what connects us to the universe, the void, and our earthly beginnings.
On this occasion, the monograph Sandrine Elberg. Constellations. is published by Éditions Lord Byron.
Librairie Alain Brieux
The Librairie Alain Brieux specializes in rare books on science and medicine, as well as scientific and medical engravings, collector’s objects, and contemporary publications devoted to the history of these disciplines.