Biennale Némo opening day

What an exceptional line-up to kick off Biennale Némo! Amidst the Beyond Reality? exhibition opening, you will find A Fall by Karl Van Welden, where a simple record player and ash will surely bring a tear to your eye with its touching representation of the passage of time and human finitude.

The main exhibition of Biennale Némo is a distillation of its central focus: revealing the invisible through digital art, science and technology.

In the introduction to the biennial, we write: “Many contemporary artists engage with astrophysical, magnetic, chemical and nuclear phenomena, as well as the societal, economic and sociological. They map out ‘reality’ in new ways by materialising the imperceptible … Astounding new aesthetic forms spring from deep in the invisible, along with a different perception of the world around us.”

Visitors will discover rooms organised into themes such as “The Wrathful Earth”, “You Are Not Invisible”, “Unnatural Natures”, and “The Bureau of Expertise in Invisible Phenomena”. The Halle Aubervilliers space, “How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?”, will be free to enter and will form a nexus between all the different areas.

Everything is “real” in this exhibition, and at Némo as a whole, of course. But as is our custom, we have taken the liberty of introducing a few variants into reality and our universe—or realities and universes.

As visitors walk through the many rooms at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS, they will find that which lies between: The scientifically proven and The X-Files, Maurice Maeterlinck and quantum physics, Luigi Pirandello and Philip K. Dick, Stephen Hawking and H.P. Lovecraft, Albert Einstein and Edgar Allen Poe

Visual © Remi Devouassoud