CORRESPONDING SPECIES

Lara Tabet, a physician, biologist, and visual artist currently in residence at the glass studio, will collaborate with glass artisans Jean-Charles Miot and Laëtitia Andrighetto to create several glass sculptures inspired by archaeological, biological, and pharmaceutical history. Her practice, at the intersection of art, science, and the environment, is rooted in research and experimentation.

Corresponding Species examines the migration routes of endemic and invasive marine species in relation to climate change. The project explores species hybridization in the marine environment, its causes, and its consequences.

Events such as large-scale mortality events, toxic algal blooms, the feminization of marine life due to endocrine disruptors, and marine genetic resources constitute the raw material from which the artist draws to weave a new bio-poetic cartography that questions the present and the past, human and non-human coexistence, and our ecological present as a window to the future.

*Corresponding Species* allows Lara to continue her research on aquatic ecologies and the quality of the biochemical habitat of bodies of water—living entities in constant evolution. For her, the ocean is a chimerical body of water made up of communicating vessels whose chemical and biological composition is affected by the hydro-political forces of the continents that surround it.

LARA TABET
Medical Biologist and Artist

Lara Tabet is a medical biologist and visual artist. Her work, which lies at the intersection of art, science, and the environment, is rooted in research and experimentation. Her current research focuses on water and aquatic ecosystems as sites of political issues and speculation, as well as on DNA as a means of archiving.

www.ltabet.com