After two years of scientific expeditions and art-science residencies in Thailand, Vietnam, and Borneo, artist-researcher Estelle Cruz is proud to present her work at the Alliance Française of Bangkok. This exhibition highlights a Franco-Thai research collaboration at the crossroads of art and science.

How to create new imaginaries that connect humans and non-humans while biodiversity is collapsing? What role can visual arts play in ecology? How to draw the living world in graphic novels?

The exhibition features 25 original works and reproductions of comic artworks from a graphic report titled Researcher Among the Living. This book documents ecological research in Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia. This illustrated report counts seven chapters, each addressing a research question in biology and ecology, from novel species description in Mahasarakham to anthropology in Nan in the north of Thailand.

The research drawings, which precede the final graphic novel panels, will also be displayed to showcase the creative process. The graphic novel is set to be published in 2025 in French, English, and Thai.

REWARD NATURE
All the original works featured in the exhibition will be available for sale, with 50% of the proceeds directly donated to Thai, Malaysian, and Vietnamese organizations working to protect biodiversity.

INFORMATION
Dates: October 17 to November 28, 2024 | Monday to Saturday | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM | free admission

Opening Reception: October 17 at 6:00 PM

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Estelle Cruz holds a PhD in Ecology from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and has been graduated architect. She draws, teaches, and conducts research at the intersection of art and science, using it as a tool to transform our relationships with the living world. Born in Grenoble in 1990, she lives and works at the foot of the mountains in Grenoble (France) and is currently based in Bangkok, where she is pursuing a postdoctoral position in the biology and arts departments at Chulalongkorn University.

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