Of Pigments and Process: Artist Talk with Anaïs Tondeur
At CARBON, Anaïs Tondeur’s exhibit, Carbon Black featured the photographed skies of Scotland and Bengaluru, India. The photographs were printed using an ink derived from carbon black particulate matter collected from the atmosphere.
In her artist talk, Tondeur invited us to draw our attention to the sky—not as an object of contemplation or as a mirror to our earthly lives. But rather as the milieu on which, from one breath to the next, our lives depend. Exploring the relationship between air, breathing, art and ethics, she shared the photographic processes which lie at the core of the Carbon Black project. She also shared her experiences on recent speculative and image-making processes she develops as an ecological practice.
About the Artist
Merging natural sciences and anthropology, myth-making, and new media, visual artist Anaïs Tondeur’s practice is anchored in ecology thought. Creating installations, photographs, or videos, she seeks a new aesthetic, in the sense of a renewal of our modes of perception, to find other conditions of being in the world.
She has been an artist-in-residence in several art centres and scientific laboratories, which include LeCentQuatre-Grand Paris Express (2018 – 2019), Artlink (Ireland, 2019), the Museum of Arts et Métiers (Paris, 2018 – 2017), and the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES, Paris, 2016).