Élise Morin

Spring Odyssey VR (virtual reality experience) is a sensory experience that intertwines art, science, technology and philosophy in a space that blends real and virtual, giving you the chance to stroke and dance with a plant exposed to radioactivity: the M plant.

This mutant plant is a sort of natural Geiger counter that makes invisible radiation visible. The project came about through a collaboration between artist Élise Morin and biologist Jacqui Shykoff, who took a trip to the Red Forest, a kilometre from the Chernobyl nuclear plant. In Spring Odyssey VR, the plant becomes a real and virtual interface for discovering the intricacies of the Red Forest, a veritable open-air laboratory, allowing you to become one with the forest and attempt to grasp radioactivity.

Artist: Élise Morin / Creative technologist: Vincent Malizia / Producer: Lucid Realities, Tulipes & Cie Production /
Coproducer: France Télévisions / With support CNC-Dicream and La Diagonale Paris-Saclay
Grand Paris Sud Est Avenir (GPSEA) partnership

Image: Spring Odyssey © Elise Morin