Photo exhibition: Objects of culture, materials and diversity
From 12 April to 29 May 2023, the PAMIR network, in partnership with "SNCF Gares & Connexions", is organising a photo exhibition entitled "Objets de culture, matériaux et diversité" (Objects of culture, materials and diversity), which will include around one hundred photographs, mainly by the photographer Laurence Godart, in five stations in the Ile-de-France region: Paris-Austerlitz, Paris Gare de Lyon, La Courneuve-Aubervilliers, Massy TGV and Versailles-Chantiers.
Dates: 12 April to 29 May 2023
Location of the photos in the stations
- Paris Gare de Lyon: hall 2, mezzanine level 1 and waiting area on level 0;
- Gare d'Austerlitz: hall on the ground floor, opposite the lifts and stairs;
- Gare de la Courneuve-Aubervilliers: access on the left and right and on track 1B;
- Massy-TGV station: passenger waiting area, access corridor v3 ;
- Versailles-Chantiers station: forecourt, hall 1 and hall 2.
25 research projects photographed
The photo exhibition "Objects of culture, materials and diversity" retraces 5 years of research on ancient materials.
It was led by Loïc Bertrand (PPSM, ENS Paris-Saclay), Sophie David (PPSM, CNRS) and Isabelle Rouget (CR2P, Musée national d'histoire naturelle) of the DIM PAMIR, within the framework of a partnership between the CNRS and SNCF Gares & Connexions with the support of the Ile-de-France Region.
Photographer Laurence Godart has followed 25 research projects illustrating the studies supported by the Ancient and Heritage Materials DIM and the Ile-de-France Region since 2017.
The scientists were photographed at their workplaces and the photographer endeavours to show their gestures, the cutting-edge instruments used, the research objects, the materials such as fossil dinosaur bones to easel paintings, ceramics to musical instruments, shells to cotton seeds, tuffs to archive photos...
Understanding the past better
These photographs tell stories between the past and the present: by moving between the infinitely small and the observation of an object or a site, scientists manage to understand manufacturing processes, to apprehend societies in their cultural diversity, their traditions, and their exchanges, to model ancient climates in order to study environmental changes, but also to identify restoration processes in order to imagine new preservation techniques.
DIM PAMIR
The Major Research and Innovation Area (DIM) Material Heritage - Innovation, Experimentation and Resilience (PAMIR) is a research network in the Ile-de-France region dedicated to the study of heritage sciences.
It brings together the human and social sciences (history, archaeology, history of art) and palaeontology, with the natural sciences (physics, chemistry, life and earth sciences) and data sciences (mathematics, statistics, computer science).
Structured in 4 methodological axes and 3 thematic fields, it strives to study heritage from all angles, to strengthen the dynamics of collaboration between research teams and socio-economic actors, and to support the structuring of the field.