BRIGHT WORMS 2025

In a low-fi performative universe with abyssal colors and iridescent surfaces, Louise Michel Jackson's research focuses on a bodily, sound, and visual experience around bioluminescence and the need to generate one's own light. Some living organisms produce this light to communicate, seduce, protect themselves, or even lure their prey. She is inspired by this phenomenon in order to materialize and honor in each human being this intimate radiance, drowned in the blinding artifice of contemporary indifference and emptiness.

A laboratory of the senses where textures, materials, reflections, and distortions create a microcosm that is both strange and welcoming, this research focuses on a universe between the intra-uterine world and the marine world, that is open to bursts of life, to sound signals from the past and elsewhere. Louise creates different paths of attention between micro and macro that offer an intimate and dreamlike vision of the world.

Attention is directed to the "subtle glows", such as those of…