Charlotte Gautier van Tour
visual artist

Charlotte Gautier van Tour was born in 1989. Graduated and commended from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris in 2014, she continues as a research student in the Reflective Interaction research program at EnsadLab until 2017. After participating in several residencies in France and abroad, she currently lives and works in Marseille. Her artistic approach is based on the desire to reveal the interdependence between all things, to reveal the connections between ecosystems and beings, to confront our bodies with other species and other dimensions. Since she has always been fascinated by the transformation of matter (organic like algae or immaterial like light), one of the main challenges she has set for herself in the coming years is to address the living, resilience and ecology in her installations. To this end, she develops her own bio-based materials, recycles various materials and favors the local economy for both her personal consumption and her artistic production. Science is a source
of inspiration that allows her to understand certain physical and chemical laws that weave our world and the great correspondences linking microscopic and macroscopic worlds. Practicing fundamental research, she also likes to cultivate chance and serendipity in her studio which resembles a laboratory as much as a kitchen.

Jimmy Boury
sound and light artist

Jimmy Boury was born in 1986. Artist working with light and sound. He grew up with the great technological inventions from computers to minitel. After graduating with a degree in electronics specialized in aeronautics, he refused a job in a satellite ground station at the last minute and went to Australia to discover the aboriginal world and their rituals. Back in France, he studied sound engineering and took part in sound creations with the choreographer Thierry Thieu Niang, whom he has been following since 2013, developing his scenographies and lighting creations. Since 2013 he has developed numerous lighting creations with artists in the field of contemporary dance, theater and opera. He stages performances linking sound and light with authors, actors or amateurs. His artistic orientations are linked to technological discoveries and his research in the field of electronics. His artistic orientations are linked to technological discoveries and his research in the field of electronics, ranging from the manufacture of synthesizers that vary with the luminosity, to objects that interact with the human by means of electrodes. The link to organic materials has become crucial in his research to bring together technology and ecology which are often opposed. The Osmos project concretizes different researches of this link between the human and the living organisms through technology.