Tiphaine Dugast

Ashes to bacteria,

the essence of life and death.

Human life is no longer balanced and we are facing the reality of our misunderstanding of nature: the underestimation of bacteria created a massively unbalanced system from the food we eat to the medicine we take. I believe that Bio-design applied to our environment and everyday spaces would recreate an ecosystem based on the essence of life.

We are what we believe. A wave of evolution, a vibration of feelings, a hole of light, this is life from bacteria to matter. Our environment is alive and I create with it a museum of memories, a space to celebrate life and death: An invitation to think and to remember.

It is a space to come and come back, because death, as part of life, is or should be an everyday subject, a subject we feel good to talk about, which we want to live, share and prepare well so that who we are and who we love are remembered in a poetic way. But how to represent a person, an identity, when the body is not here anymore? shape – smell – voice – heart bit – emotion …

The Museum is located in Margate, along the coast, between an old lift and a staircase. It could be elsewhere as there are a lot of similar towns which have a lift or funicular, a strong meaning of movement and transition. The relation with the past and the nature have also an impact on the ambiance in this museum.

Come and participate to this unique experience where death is shown as a piece of art.