Exposition “À l’ombre des gestes – Corps et savoirs”

Science is defined by its discoveries and advances. It is embodied in the faces of those who dedicate long hours of work to it.
But what happens behind the scenes? What are the people behind the scenes? How are they defined, and who is behind them?

It's hard to think about gesture. Immaterial, fleeting, commonplace, it is nonetheless the result of repetition and conditioning. It is shaped by attempts and failures.
It is part of the long chain of operations involved in the creation of knowledge. Often studied and noted in the arts and crafts sector, gestures are in themselves a form of know-how. Research laboratories are not devoid of these thinking, creative hands. Quite the contrary, in fact.
They enable theory to become practical, the abstract to become tangible. Scientific gestures are the sensibility that the collective imagination denies to science.