Funded by the Advanced Research Program at the Université Côte d’Azur, the project ‘ If we were to look at regeneration with a different eye’ has been initiated as an artistic-scientific collaboration with the artist Irene Kopelman and the Röttinger (IRCAN – UCA, CNRS, INSERM), and is driven by Irene long-term engagement with scientific research which underlies her artistic practice. This interest has led Iren to find a number of parallels between the practices of science and art, both in terms of objectives and methodologies. Looking for points of convergence between the two fields has become one of the main features of Irene’s work. Irene will work with the researchers at both labs to develop responses to their work and make new observations through drawing, as a mode of investigation into the visual characteristics of their vital field of study. As an artist, Irene ultimate goal is to create a body of art works (including drawings, paintings, sculptures and graphic material). The aim is to focus on a part of nature that has been overlooked in the context of contemporary art: marine invertebrates. The art-works produced during the project will shared with the public in various and different formats at Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain (MAMAC).