With this exhibition, La Grande Place, Musée Saint-Louis hosts works whose materials are as discreet as they are unusual: from seaweed and spider silk to organic membranes and minerals. Léa Barbazanges invites us to look closely at the things that often escape our perception, which serve as her sources of inspiration and which she metamorphoses into highly evocative forms endowed with a surprising elegance. She transforms and elevates each of these materials, revealing their unexpected beauty through a fragile and poetic universe.

For the first time, Léa Barbazanges presents here a series of works inspired by diatoms, microscopic round or linear algae that play a vital role in the carbon cycle. She explores the complexity of their forms through an evolving large-scale work: running through the exhibition is a metres-long line of mica, a mineral whose natural opalescence lends it a highly elusive quality.