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FUTUROTEXTILES EXHIBITION

A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT THE TEXTILES OF THE FUTURE

Futurotextiles is a mobile exhibition module combining science, technology and the art of textiles, showcasing a selection of concrete visions of tomorrow’s textiles in different fields: aeronautics, clothing, medicine...

The objects, applications and works exhibited draw their inspiration from the craziest of dreams and invent today our hopes of tomorrow.

A scientific corner will also illustrate the importance of the research developed in the textile industry and especially in the Lille Eurometropole (France - Belgium). This artistic, educational and poetic journey will interest all types of audience.

INSTALLATIONS

SCÉNOCOSME / Contacts & Akousmaflore
"Contacts" is a new interactive, sensitive, tactile and noise-reactive device that showcases visitors’ bodies. Contact is made by rubbing skin against skin which then triggers off a range of variable sounds. "Akousmaflore" is an interactive hanging garden made up of genuine musical plants, reactivated when touched however lightly. When a visitor caresses or touches them lightly, they start singing...

FRANCIS KURKDJIAN / Perfumed bubbles

A Frenchman with Armenian roots, Francis Kurkdjian, a perfumery artist, has already worked with the most important brands. At the age of 25 years, he designed his first perfume that went on to become a major international success: Le Mâle by Jean-Paul Gaultier. For the Lille Europe Pavilion, he will set up strange perfumed bubble machines, atomisers with delicate aromas and even micro-capsules with sophisticated fragrances that will be combined with cleaning products !

SOUNDWALK / Lille Sounds

Let yourself be carried away by the sounds of the North - stations, brasseries, markets, accordions, the Lille National Orchestra rehearsing... – that will be broadcast in the different parts of the Pavilion (downloading possible on MP3).

INFORMATION / STUDENT GROUP RESERVATION:
Guided visit from Monday to Friday  10AM  to 12AM / FREE OF CHARGE
Shanghai Hongmiao Art Gallery,
No.50 Shitan Lane,496 East Nanjing Road, Shanghai ,200001
www.lille3000.com