ADELE TILOUINE
SCIENCE Artist
Born in 1989, Adèle Tilouine is a science artist who lives and works in Paris.
Adèle Tilouine grew up traveling around the world, spending the majority of her childhood in Nepal, India, Japan, Lebanon and many other countries. Following her parents, both researchers, on their international fieldwork, she was confronted very young with war and various, sometimes conflicting approaches, on life and death. This immersion in different philosophical, political, economic, religious and cultural systems during her childhood left a mark on her and gave birth to philosophical questions that serve as the foundational pillars of her artistic work today.
Having a great passion for social sciences, Tilouine studied anthropology, medieval history and art history, first at the Ecole du Louvre and Sorbonne University and then at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). In 2013, she obtained a master’s degree from the EHESS specializing in visual studies and began a Ph.D in medieval anthropology. allowing her to work and study between France and the U.S. Tilouine then proceeded to work in the art market as a gallerist, curator and art critic while also pursuing her own artistic practice.
Since 2014, Tilouine has had regularly showcases of her work in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East in festivals, collective exhibitions and personal shows. In 2016, she became interested in the idea of scientific art and started to explore microscopic aesthetic via fractals through a host of different mediums including photography, video, oil paint, stain glass, drawings and installations. She obtained the grant of the “Passion Jeunes du CNRS” in 2010, as well as the “Grand Prix” of the “Salon international d’Art Plastiques Arbustes” three times (2015, 2018 and 2019) in Mantes la Jolie. In 2019, she won “le prix des Amis du Salon d’Automne” at the Salon d’Automne in Paris and was rewarded 3rd place at the « Minimalist Design Contest » organized by Huawei and Myprofilart.
In 2019, Adèle Tilouine co-founded TakT, an audiovisual science-art collaboration with Tyler Kaufman (composer and sound designer, USA-France). Since 2019, they presented their work in France, South Korea and India.
In 2021 their collaborative work was awarded with the Emerging Scene Art Prize, (international art prize from Dubaï, EMU), the ADAGP prize in the Digital Art Section of the Salon d'Automne - Paris 2021 and they were selected as “Artist in the Spotlight” by the Arte Laguna Prize (international art prize from Venice, Italy).
In collaboration with Lille University (France), she obtained two art residency at TISBio microscopy lab (Lille, France) in 2018 and 2020, where she gained access to cellular material and worked with a multitude of scientists to deepen her knowledge of the microscopic world. With the expertise and help of scientific researchers, she was able to access microscopes and highly specialized software and make her own art based of the microscopic elements. Through her collaboration with scientific researchers and her own plastic researches, Adèle Tilouine was able to study the cellular material of her own body and environment which further shaped her perception of the human experience. This art residency was followed by two science art exhibitions; “Mythologie Cellulaire”, which included numerous public and academic talks and an educational science art workshop called “Héros Cellulaires” presented in Beyrouth, Lebannon in 2019 and Lille, France in 2021. This workshop was awarded by the French Ministry of Education as most innovative educational project of the year during the Journées de l’Innovation Pégagogique 2021.
