Sarah Sandler
Updated — 13/11/2025

Still Life

Still Life, 2021
3D Artec Spider scan ; poster, 180 x 120 cm

In 2021 I was invited by Studio Ganek in partnership with the City of Lyon to participate in À ciel ouvert, an open-air exhibition of 20 artists from Lyon taking over the city's billboards with original artworks.

Still Life, is a 3D scan of a stromatolite — a bacterial rock formation that preserves some of the oldest fossilized life on Earth. Borrowed from a CNRS collection in Lyon, where several of these specimens are archived, the specimen is held in my hand, in a gesture linking ancient microbial life to the human body through contemporary imaging technology.

À ciel ouvert is a project by Studio Ganek for the City of Lyon, in partnership with JCDecaux.
↗ see the project description on Studio Ganek's website

Exhibition views À ciel ouvert, Lyon, 2021

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Modélisations avec un scanner 3D Artic Spider
Collection de géologie, Université Lyon 1