The Sky in Us

Participants joined artist Anaïs Tondeur to capture the Bengaluru skies in a unique way! In this workshop, they walked around parts of the city to track and collect carbon black particles from the deceivingly blue skies. As standstill explorers, they worked with the artist to photograph the sky above them—not just the backdrop to our lives, but an environment on which we depend. These photographs were later printed using a pigment derived from the captured carbon black particles and were displayed at Science Gallery Bengaluru's exhibition-season CARBON!

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About the Visual 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).