From a literal point of view, it is true that one may be tempted, beforehand, to assimilate these photographs to a long tradition of scientific observation - the images that one believes are created under a microscope are mixed with those that could have been made with a telescope. Some models are similar to particles saturated with life or energy; some have an organic consistency, while others are like effusions of matter, electric arcs or molten bodies gushing out of nothing. Other circular figures could be associated with windows belonging to any exploration machine. But what really polarizes Sandrine Elberg's work around scientific principles is not so much the visual evocations, a global physiognomy, as the way she views the production of these photographs. Indeed, if the attraction for cosmic environments never fades, it is the whole operating mode that is approached in a logic comparable to that of experimental sciences, especially when it is a question of validating hypotheses oscillating between clairvoyance and surprise, or of hesitating between conscious invention and chance discovery. Julien Verhaeghe