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La Centrale: Choosing Distance

by Carin Klonowski

by Carin Klonowski An art space whose name you think you’ve heard before. A big space, with a waxed concrete floor, why not on old industrial premises. You haven’t got it all wrong, but you’re nevertheless far from reality. There’s [...]

The Bastille Art Center

by Isabelle Henrion

by Isabelle Henrion The Bastille Art Centre in Grenoble is a place with somewhat paradoxical visibility. Perched atop the Fort de la Bastille, an emblematic tourist spot in the city, it is accessed via the “Bulles de Grenoble”, an urban [...]

My Jean-Charles de Quillacq

by Simon Feydieu

by Simon Feydieu Checkers The attraction to a mirror is variable; it refers to our degree of narcissism, voyeurism, or simply the fascination that all optical effects can produce – such as reflections, but also transparency and diffraction. In the exhibition [...]

Periphery of the Night –Apichatpong Weerasethakul

by Lillian Davies

by Lillian Davies “It’s a little like the inside of my brain”1, artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul explains, describing his most recent exhibition, Periphery of the Night at the institution where curator and director Nathalie Ergino founded Laboratoire Espace Cerveau2 with artist Ann [...]

In the mirror of La Salle de Bains

by Raphaël Brunel

by Raphaël Brunel 1.It’s a foggy December morning. To alleviate a splitting headache, I drink cup after cup of coffee at the counter of Le Bastringue. The person I’m meeting is late – it’s out of character. I plunge my hand [...]

Cosmology of Living Things and Mutants

by Pedro Morais

by Pedro Marais While many of today’s researchers are not reflecting “on” elements of the living world, but through the lens of their agency – the mushroom for Anna Tsing or lichen for Vincent Zonca – philosopher Dénètem Touam Bona [...]