Over the last ten years or so, Dieudonné Cartier has been examining the various principles of production, reproduction and dissemination of works of art through publishing, the multiple, and installations incorporating documentation and archives. Through these multiple modes of appearance of the work of art, he questions its status and value, placing creation within the economic and labour logics that contribute to its existence.

In 2014, he created the project The Office of Gravitational Documents, which takes the form of a research office to build up an archive of creative processes and protocols in the history of art.
More recently, the artist has initiated a reflection on the relationship between scientific protocols and the creative process. In 2018, he presented a project based on the scientific methods of archaeology at the Château d’Oiron.

For his exhibition at CCC OD, Dieudonné Cartier is extending this relationship between art and science, scientific techniques and the creative process, mathematics and abstraction. Approaching the exhibition as a laboratory, he is developing an original project that explores the very contemporary issue of datas and the flow of digital data. The water of the Loire is seen here as the living raw material for this research.