Since 1991, they have been working on installation, performance, video and photography around the theme of the Living.
Art Orienté Objet is an artistic duo created in 1991 in Paris, formed by Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin. In a firmly interdisciplinary approach, their intention is to constantly extend the capacity of art to communicate in a non-verbal way. Through anthropological, ecological or biotechnological experiments, they seek to understand the limits of their own consciousness. Whether it is through the Bwiti tradition of the pygmies, meditation experiments, or an injection of horse blood, their goal is to go beyond their own understanding of the world, and thus be able to transmit the "wide angle" vision born of this experience.
The artists Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin put ecology, understood as the science questioning our conditions of existence, at the very center of their artistic approach. Since 1991, they have been working with installation, performance, video and photography around the theme of the Living. This leads them to approach biology, behavioral sciences (psychology and ethology, hence the strong animal presence in their work), ecology or ethnology in poetic and unexpected creations, as much political as visionary.