To be seen from Friday until February 5, the new EPFL Pavilions exhibition offers a dive into the immensity of the Universe. It transcribes data from research in astrophysics, a priori elusive, into experiences accessible to the human senses.
The culmination of two years of research, the exhibition is the result of a collaboration between the experimental museology (eM+) and astrophysics (LASTRO) laboratories of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Entitled “Cosmos Archaeology” (the archeology of the cosmos), it is revealed in 19 installations and works of art which combine “scientific rigor with visual experience”, indicates the EPFL in a press release.
Intended for researchers as well as the general public, the exhibition combines real-time simulations, contemplations on a hemispherical screen, 3D film, ceramics, photographs and even kinetic sculpture. It invites the exploration of stars and galaxies, initiates to the tools of astronomical observation, immerses in the sounds of planets and reports on space debris in orbit, continues the press release.
Tribute is also paid to people who have devoted their lives to space exploration, whether they are famous like Claude Nicollier or unknown.
“This exhibition has the particularity of making the Universe accessible and explorable to as many people as possible (…), of apprehending data that would otherwise escape our perception”, indicate professors Sarah Kenderdine and Jean-Paul Kneib, curators of the exhibition, quoted in the press release.
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