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Metamorphosis – Sublimation and Transmutation
Curator: Marc Pottier

I don’t distinguish between art and other fields. The artistic desire to create doesn't seem to oppose any longer the desire to transform the world than scientific thought...
André Malraux

Metamorphosis, in addition to forms, belongs to creators since Greek-Roman mythology, like the hunter Actaeon being transformed into a deer after having surprised Artemis while she bathed, or Daphne fleeing from Apollo's passion by becoming a bay leaf tree, or even the nymph Syrinx who turned into reeds to escape the god Pan. …