How can we attune to the webs of the Earth and the myriad of presences, both animate and inanimate, aerial and terrestrial, that meet and cohabit within it? The exhibition Du sol au soleil (From the ground to the sun) by Tomás Saraceno is imagined as a wander across human and non-human universes, revealing their choreographies, and the limitless yet fragile bonds that unite these worlds. From a spider/web to a fossil free flying balloon, from flying gardens to the hidden score of celestial phenomena, the exhibition explores the connections between what lies below and above the Earth’s surface, and that ultimately take place in a shared cosmos. While some human activities continue to threaten entire ecologies, Du sol au soleil is an invitation to build sustained attunements with others and for us to rethink alternative ways of inhabiting the world.

The show draws its inspiration from Le Domaine des Etangs unique settings and its attention to the preservation of ecosystems. Sitting on the edge of the 20km² Rochechouart meteorite crater, the Domain thus appears as a place uniting the elements and celebrating entanglements between the aquatic, the terrestrial and the celestial. A series of public events relating to the cultivation of interspecies attunement, the art of noticing, and to building more equitable modes of existence with the environment, will be held throughout the exhibition. The project will culminate in 2022 with the installation in the Domaine des Etangs of the site-specific, monumental and permanent work Du sol au soleil, an aerial structure, both cloud and spider’s web, which will unveil perspectives otherwise inaccessible to humankind.