The title of the second gives the exhibition its name, appropriating a concept from biology according to which each species experiences a reality defined by its sensory environment.
In the “Umwelt” series, Tadzio puts the scientific image of humus specimens laminated by researchers at the Paris Museum of Natural History through the sieve of his “Isles”. Like an image archaeologist, he tries to extract the substratum of the world around us by digging into images, and the result is something bubbling like the crust of burning magma, satellite images of distant constellations. Mixing images from the laboratory with his own, he adds a poetic lens to a sharp scientific eye…
In his “The Isle” series, Tadzio conjures up a world of reefs lost in the limestone ocean, island forms that crack the bark of everyday life. In this reinvention of reality based on the inversion of scale, he transforms the ordinary into a distant landscape.
The two series, entangled in this creative process, come together in their total absence of scale, inviting us to take a step to the side and extract ourselves from the world we ignore beneath our feet and before our eyes, in order to reinvent it. “Umwelt” is about imagining new sensory contours for our reality, sharpening our perception and thus redefining our experience of living things.
