An awareness of the decisive influence that scientific insights and technological advances exert on our lives led San Francisco photographer Catherine Wagner to undertake an unusual project. She entered major U.S. research laboratories and photographed the world she found there, focusing on simple, auxiliary objects as well as highly sophisticated instruments. The result of these efforts is Art & Science: Investigating Matter, an exhibition that was organized by the Washington University Gallery of Art in St. Louis and will be on display at New York City's International Center of Photography from March 28 to June 15. Wagner's photographs offer the opportunity to encounter science in an innovative and unusual manner, as they not only cover various fields of research, such as molecular biology, physics, and earth and planetary science, but they also bridge the distance between art, science, and everyday life. While the photographs are an inquiry into the overall concept of scientific research, they live as works of art on their own, too.

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