In this installation, the artist’s attraction to the living world once again comes to the fore. Naturalized butterfly wings—destined for disposal because they did not meet the standards of the collection—unfold and animate themselves through the rhythm of shape-memory wires. Their slow, unpredictable beat suggests less a cold mechanism than a sensitive extension of their possible movements. They reveal the shifting brilliance of their scales, whose colors remain intact, inscribed within the microarchitecture of their surface rather than in fleeting pigments, while the ephemeral fragility of these former lives still lingers.

Vivien Roubaud reflects on time, slowness, and attention, inviting a patient, almost meditative observation through which their subtle qualities can be perceived. Beneath glass cloches, these fragments do not present themselves as mere curiosities, but as presences to be encountered—witnesses to a space where art, science, and technology intertwine. The installation thus offers a space in which matter, living forms, and human creativity coexist without hierarchy.