Cryonics: Modern-day Mummification?

The photographer Stéphanie Solinas delivers a poetic work that questions the boundaries between belief and science. Her photographs taken over San Francisco illustrate a dialogue with the founder of a cryonics company whose core business is based on the promise of eternal life. Solinas’s work is featured as part of the Fata Morgana festival at the Jeu de Paume, while her book Le soleil ni la mort is published by Delpire & Co.

Cryobiology is a scientific discipline that studies the behavior of living organisms, as well as metals when they are exposed to very low temperatures. It has many applications in the fields of physics, medicine, and in the food sector. In 1962, a br...

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