Antoine Birot uses volumes, space and movement to translate the universe around him. He seeks to transform even the heaviest materials into symbols of lightness and poetry. By breathing life into inert materials, his works have the will to make the movement a technique in its own right and is part of the expression of kinetic art. He practices a set of contemporary mediums that gives him a freedom in his artistic gesture, sculptures, videos, installations, performances. The relationship of women and men to the world, the expression of the living and the sensitive in the broad sense, are at the center of his creations. For the exhibition Des matières, des âmes Antoine Birot has invested two emblematic places of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil: the Maison Julien Gracq and the Abbey.