ÆQUO consists in creating a dialogue between the Alpine glaciers and the underwater reliefs of the Mediterranean Sea.
Mediterranean Sea through an interplay of complementarities and reversals between the source of the river and the sea where it flows. From an oceanographic fleet, geologists penetrate the heart of the oceans’ geological memory by sending sound waves into the water, generating digital underwater landscapes. Thousands of kilometers away, Alpine glaciers drip. Alpine horn sounds vibrate the snow-capped mountains. As the voices of geologists content morphogenesis, ice melts, salt crumbles in their hands.

To give substance to the scientific data, the sound shapes extracted from the geology software are printed in 3d, in salt and ice. The idea is to explore the creation of forms generated by scientific tools for artistic purposes. These complementary forms are destined to metamorphose and disappear on contact with each other: becoming ocean and becoming glacier are intimately intertwined. This ephemeral sculptural gesture, like a tool for new hypotheses, materializes a world in transition. These forms attempt to freeze time for as long as they can, in the context of a climatic emergency, where the machine is both a vector of vision and of loss.

Julia Borderie & Eloïse Le Gallo have formed a duo since 2016. In an exploratory mode, they explore water as a substance that influences the territories it bathes and the bodies that live in them. In a poetic documentary approach, the camera’s eye acts as a catalyst for encounters, while questioning the human gestures that shape materials and territories. At the heart of a network of viewpoints and disciplines, at the crossroads of sculpture and cinema, they are interested in the origins of materials in the landscape, questioning the complementarities between learned form and sensitive form, in collaborations with scientists around forms generated by their cutting-edge technological tools.