TOI 700D : Commissariat Fabien Danesi

5 June - 24 July 2021 17 rue des Filles du Calvaire 75003 Paris

So you might as well take this name as an excuse to invent a biotope playing with differences and similarities with our knowledge to show how the powers of art are often at stake in transformation…

With Noémie Goudal, Cindy Coutant, Kim Farkas, Daiga Grantina, Antwan Horfee, Botond Keresztesi , Roy Köhnke, Claire Van Lubeek, Ben Rivers, Yan Tomaszewski

In January 2020, NASA announced the discovery of a new exoplanet, visible near the red dwarf TOI 700. If it has joined a catalog that already includes 4000 celestial objects, this one has a particular quality: the distance with its sun could allow the presence of water, which potentially makes it a “habitable” land. The fact remains that the 100 light years that separate us from TOI 700d turns this information into real speculation. No one will be able to tread its hypothetical rocky ground. So you might as well take this name as an excuse to invent a biotope playing with differences and similarities with our knowledge to show how the powers of art are often at stake in transformation…