"We dream of journeys through the Universe, but isn't the Universe within us? Novalis (German poet)

 

The 27th edition of FAVA will be held under the theme Cosmos and Fireflies, a theme that will offer participants and the general public the opportunity to explore, through works created live, the artist's vision and relationship with the universe (cosmos), driven by intuitive thought. Creative imagination will be the beating heart of this year's event. 

 

For a long time, mankind has looked to the heavens for answers to existential questions, and to probe the mystery of our presence on this planet. According to researchers, some cave paintings of animals may even depict constellations, a kind of sky map on the rock faces.

 

In 1904, physicist Ernest Rutherford compared the atom to a miniature solar system. The atom's trait obeys the laws of quantum mechanics, which studies and describes the fundamental phenomena at work in physical systems, particularly on the atomic and subatomic scales.

 

In 2018, a team of scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered the most distant star ever observed: a blue supergiant located 9.3 billion light years from Earth. 

 

In 1924, astronomers succeeded in demonstrating that spiral nebulae - floating islands of sorts - are autonomous galaxies outside the Milky Way. There is said to be over a million of them. As a result, our galaxy is now recognized as just another galaxy in an ever-expanding universe. 

Among the recent discoveries that have propelled our imaginations into new realms is the one made in 2022 with the James-Webb Infrared Telescope, which, among other things, has enabled researchers to discover new galaxies - the Pillars of Creation - and to see Neptune's rings with greater precision. 

 

In this age of communications and technological advances, the individual and collective imagination is certainly abundantly nourished, and this certainly contributes to shaping our vision of the world. Are today's visual artists inspired by the scientific discoveries that have revealed to us the fantastic dimensions of the universe - with the presence of white dwarfs, red giants, exoplanets, etc.? 

 

Like the firefly that is born knowing how to produce and emit its own light, intuition is instinctual in man and linked to the senses, like a luminous artistic vein that the artist follows until the completion of a work - relying on his reality of being in the world and all the baggage he carries through this singular body he inhabits. And what if, as the German poet Novalis wrote, the Universe was within us? 

 

So, get your firefly wings and cardboard rocket ready, and come and meet the artists taking part in the 27th edition of FAVA, an artistic experience for the whole family under the theme Cosmos and Fireflies, from June 8 to 11, 2023, at Carrefour de la mer in Caraquet, New Brunswick.

 

A 27th edition of FAVA to cultivate our joy of inhabiting the world and our dreams of azure.