“La Vie Grouille” is a re-enactment of unusual daily behaviors in a world on the brink: lives divided between the urgent need for inclusivity and sociability, and the fear of killing a mockingbird. Beyond the media, there are human gestures, fears and atavistic conflicts between man and nature. Fabio Valerio Tibollo documented the theater of the pandemic 2020-2022, moving between Paris, where he was when, in March 2020, the first lockdown began, Brittany, Rome, and New York. For three years, he captured new scenes almost every day, scenes that revealed themselves to his realist and impartial eye, if this is at all possible. By pulling together images stripped of their chronological sequence, but ones that nevertheless follow a metaphysical thread, “La Vie Grouille” becomes paradigm of new inter-species communication, of time running, of contemporary answers to the unexpected nature of life. Something moves under the water, life will emerge again.