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Samuel Bianchini
Samuel Bianchini is an artist and associate professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs—Paris (EnsAD) / PSL University Paris. Supporting the principle of an “operational aesthetic,” he works on the relationship between the most forward-looking technological “dispositifs”, modes of representation, new forms of aesthetic experiences, and sociopolitical organizations, often in collaboration with scientists and natural science and engineering research laboratories.

At Present (Félix Guattari) (2017)





Who has never contemplated drops of water seeking their path down a windowpane? Drops of water fall on a glass stele; they do not seem to be moving randomly, they wander, follow invisible bends and form letters and parts of letters; they provide glimpses of words, a sentence*, the epitaph of a thinker, Félix Guattari.

Sentence, in french, from the poem "Absence" by Carlos Drummond De Andrade, in La Machine du monde et autres poèmes, Ed. Gallimard, Paris, p. 384.