The flagship exhibition of the Nemo biennial, Les faits du hasard offers a selection of works where the unexpected and the unexpected give all their flavors to the installations. Located in the nave of 104 in Paris, you have until March 4 to soak up serendipity and non-linear art.
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Magnetic earths, aesthetic fog, robot designers, microalgae, magnetic symphony, shadow, light, dancing chairs and biblical smartphones are just some of the artistic oddities selected by Gilles Alvarez and José-Manuel GonçalvÚs, the artistic directors of the event.
What do the chosen works have in common? Chance. Digital works are often perceived as perfect, following to the letter a program that meets standards of interactivity, but is it really that? How to control Art without it becoming mechanical and soulless? How to create perfection? And in reality, do we really love perfection? How to put back the human when everything is calculated by machines, how to make dream when everything is logical and pre-calculated? Simply by favoring chance, by leaving room for the unexpected, for the accident, forwhat makes us what we are: Men. Art is the most beautiful creation of humanity, the most subjective, personal, cultural. It is what is the most fascinating of lost civilizations, so why would digital art be standardized by codes (in the multiple sense of the term)?
Here, the works are moving, sometimes even alive, in the sandstone of external situations, climatic conditions, the passage of spectators, light, sound and even simply the passing of time.
Impermanence, a subject dear to Asian civilizations and our volatile society, makes it possible to create an exhibition where the works are never really alike. By coming regularly, we notice changes, variations and evolutions. What about those connected flowers that transport us to a Canadian field, if not the poetry of the moment, or those magnetic needles flush with the water and randomly hitting the glass walls?
Between alchemy and science, aquaphonic machines disturb our senses, just like the light tunnel. Some works are only on display until January 7, so hurry up. The others are waiting for you until March 4th.
