Social and ecological issues are at the heart of François de Saint Georges artistic commitment. Through various media - films, radio creations or theatrical performances - he works at the intersection between journalism and art, intimate research and understanding of major global systemic issues. Since 2019, he has focused mainly on work related to chemical contamination. In recent years, he has produced a series of radio programmes - Comme On Nous Traite - and a film - ZUT, Zones Urgentes à Transformer - about the use of pesticides in Belgium. He also works regularly with visual artist Moni Wespi, as a cinematographer. The Chemical Stories/Chemical Bodies project is an extension of the research he has carried out to date.

How can we talk artistically about the contamination of the world by chemicals? How can we bring to light the invisible damage that is causing subtle alterations both inside and outside us? Having attempted to describe in documentary form the bath of industrial chemistry in which we are all now swimming, documentary filmmaker and theatre-maker François de Saint Georges wants to invent a visual, video, sound and theatrical practice capable of responding through the imagination to this violence of the colonisation of the body by chemistry. How can we make the invisible visible? What is it about our bodies that we are not yet aware of, but which gradually emerges? This two-stage research project - putting together stories of chemical contamination; studying the theatrical physicality of contamination, in particular through the practice of butô - should enable us to lay the foundations of this new practice and develop a new formal language.