Melodie C
melodiec.art1@gmail.com
Artlab
I lead the ArtLab (Art to Predict Space Travel), a research-based artistic program developed within the Spring Institute.
The ArtLab brings together contemporary artistic practices, science,
and technology through residencies, collaborative projects,
and public engagement.
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Conceived as a space for experimentation and knowledge exchange, it aims to foster long-term artistic research rooted in both local contexts and international collaborations.
It also seeks to question space research and its ethical dimensions, while giving the public — including rural communities — access to and insight into scientific projects.
"Le Jardin Lunaire" project 2025
I am developing a prototype of a lunar station made from mycelium, in collaboration with ESTACA and Champignons Coussacois.The project explores bio-based materials and speculative habitats for future space environments, while questioning how such materials could help reduce long-lasting waste beyond Earth and encourage low-tech approaches to space research.
Lithographic Goods Research Project (2024)
I also question the ethical dimensions of space travel through illustration. These concerns are represented by a hollow planet consumed by a parasite, alongside a naked human figure symbolizing vulnerability and fragility. Such illustrations are also developed as lithographic goods, produced and sold through short supply chains. This approach helps finance the project while opening a public dialogue on the ethics of space exploration and on how artistic projects themselves can be developed in more ecological and responsible ways.
Lithographic Goods Research Project (2024)
A representation of mathematics and the ways in which the humanities seek to understand our world and our desire to fly. Project (2024)
A science fiction map representing future paths within lunar stations.
Project (2024)
workshops project 2025
I also develop workshops with school groups, for example inviting students to represent the different sections of the Spring Institute. This approach led to an augmented reality project involving the creation of 3D objects, which were then hidden throughout the village where the project took place.
Represent all sections of the Spring Institute 2024
Research of goods printed on clothing using lithography techniques, with the aim of selling them through short supply chains. This includes printing on recovered or upcycled T-shirts, as part of an effort to develop more ecological and locally rooted production methods. To help finance the ArtLab project.
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Illustration for La Jaune et la Rouge May 2025
Published in La Jaune et la Rouge, this illustration is inspired by Albert Camus’ myth of Sisyphus.
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Life on Earth emerges from this strangeness:
we control neither our existence nor
the paths we follow.
Like Sisyphus pushing his stone, we move forward without knowing the meaning, yet it is within this very movement that rarity and the fragile beauty of life arise. A path lost in the immensity of the sky, and yet unmistakably our own.
Drawing intended to be sent into orbit as part of the Space Locker project (printed on a metal plate). Summer 2025
Inspired by an idea from 2001: A Space Odyssey, I evoke the ghosts of humanity — those who walked the Earth before us. I imagine each of them as a star shining somewhere in the sky. Shooting stars become dandelion seeds or wandering souls, fragile and random, absurd yet beautiful. For me, this image is a metaphor for the cosmos: cast into the absurd, we are asked to trace a form — ephemeral, but sincere.
Research for the Aurelia project,
focusing on space urbanism
and low-tech lunar station.
Hand-drawn December 2025
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Hand-drawn December 2025
Hand-drawn December 2025