Since 1991, the duo Art Orienté Objet has been exploring the boundaries of consciousness and life itself, blending ecology, biotechnology, and ancestral rituals to offer a poetic and radical vision of the world.
With a resolutely interdisciplinary approach, Art Orienté Objet explores the limits of human consciousness and seeks to expand art’s capacity to communicate beyond language. Through anthropological, ecological, and biotechnological experiments, the duo examines our relationship with the living world and offers an expanded vision of perception. Whether immersing themselves in the Bwiti traditions of the Pygmies, engaging in meditation experiments, or undergoing injections of horse blood, their practice aims to surpass their understanding of reality and convey a sensitive and reflective experience.
Ecology, understood as the science that questions our conditions of existence, lies at the heart of their work. Their creations — installations, performances, videos, and photographs — intertwine biology, behavioral sciences, ethology, ecology, and ethnology to produce poetic, political, and visionary experiences in which animal life and the living world occupy a central place.
Art Orienté Objet is an artistic duo founded in Paris in 1991, composed of Marion Laval‑Jeantet and Benoît Mangin. Their work explores the boundary between art, science, and anthropology, developing projects in which the living is simultaneously material, subject, and mediator. Their works have been presented in numerous national and international contexts, including the Palais de Tokyo and La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, MUDAM Luxembourg, La Maréchalerie in Versailles, and the Transpalette art center in Bourges. They have developed emblematic installations and performances such as Unrooted Tree or La Machine à faire parler les arbres, Le Jardin des Délices, Andachtsraum, and Entropia, and more recently Zoosphères at the Domaine départemental de Chamarande and Je suis contre ! at the Galerie Les filles du cæalvaire.