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ABOUT

Dominique Peysson is a visual artist and art researcher. She has two doctorates, in arts and sciences of art at Paris 1 and in physics, and an ESPCI engineering degree. She conducted her research and taught at the National School of Decorative Arts (Ensad), then at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Promoting the fertile encounter between contemporary arts and science, she regularly exhibits her works in France and abroad and is the author of numerous publications, including the book Image-Matter: Emerging Materials & Imaginary Metamorphoses at Say See.

Life is a vapor… and then nothing

Nov 17, 2021

Click here “Life is a vapor… and then noting” by Olivier GOulet and myself presented during the Si(non)oui festival on November 17, 2021 This performance is a vanity. She begins […]

happy new year 2021

04 Jan 2021

Come see my 2021 wishes video

Arles Digital October Festival 2020

Oct 21, 2020

Cloud study is currently exhibited for the October Digital festival in Arles!
A cloud image taken from the painting "Landscape under a turbulent sky", which Vincent van Gogh painted in Arles in April 1889. The image is formed from drops which are composed of dew water collected in a field like the one of the table, during the summer of 2020.

Morning dew harvest

Jun 08, 2020

Harvesting dew water in the very early morning near the city of Arles, using one of the methods recommended by alchemists. When the atmospheric conditions were met to allow the deposition of dew during the night, the artist Dominique Peysson slid a cotton sheet over the grass and the leaves to impregnate it with this water coming directly from the clouds.