9 October - 12 October 2025

Emilie Dujat Office
Avenue des Klauwaerts 38
1050 Bruxelles

As part of the Living Earth Festival tour, in partnership with La Cambre, ISELP, and ULB, Galerie Emilie Dujat is presenting in its office a contemporary cabinet of curiosities designed by Miguel Chevalier, a world-renowned pioneer of digital art.

The artist draws inspiration here from the richness and diversity of the oceanic world, particularly from the fascinating universe of zooplankton and phytoplankton. These microorganisms, with their incredibly fine silica skeletons, display radiant symmetry and a variety of forms that captivated 19th-century scientists, notably Ernst Haeckel.

Using artificial intelligence and images of a wide variety of species, Miguel Chevalier transposes the geometry and complexity of these natural structures into digital works. The exhibition invites a poetic and sensory journey between dream and reality, where the screen becomes a vast porthole opening onto imaginary seabeds — a world in which 95% remains unexplored.

On these virtual surfaces, “living” organisms with luminescent colors move and slowly transform, evoking the bioluminescence of the ocean depths. Projecting these forms on a large scale immerses the viewer in a meditative experience, blending scientific observation and aesthetic wonder.

Alongside this installation, the artist also presents static works and 3D-printed sculptures from his “cabinets of curiosities.” These post-virtual pieces give material form to the algorithms that generated them, fixing strange yet familiar shapes inspired by abyssal creatures into tangible forms.

Through Digital Plankton AI 2025, Miguel Chevalier invites us to reconsider our relationship with life, both visible and invisible, and reflect on the fragility of marine ecosystems. He celebrates the beauty and formal richness of the underwater world while raising awareness of the urgency to preserve this threatened biodiversity.

Miguel Chevalier's contemporary cabinets of curiosities combine real creatures from the abyss on loan from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle with the artist's luminescent sculptures, composed of sculptures inspired by the seabed, particularly plankton, such as the incredibly shaped radiolarians.