Curator Statement

Exhibition. Forum des Images, May 16 – 21

With ISEA2023 selected artists: Ugo Arsac, Bastien Didier (Mentalista), disnovation.org, Vidya-Kelie Juganaikloo and Sunjeong Hwang

At the Forum des images, throughout the Symposium, a thematic display will propose, with different partners, different points of view on the idea of Symbiosis, as will be the case with works by Quebec artists from the partnership with CALQ and elektra, as well as the partnership with artport, from the Whitney Museum of American Art. But works from the ISEA2023 selection will also be exhibited, created by Vidya Kelie, Ugo Arsac, the deeptech studio mentalista, Sunjeong Hwang or disnovation.org.

For ISEA2023, Vidya-Kelie Juganaikloo is reactivating the website Hypercodex.org. Ugo Arsac, for his part, will present the “immersive documentary” ENERGĒIA (2022). Mentalista will present its latest project, Mental Garden (2022). Also in the idea of inter-region communication, the Tanhamnu Warp Drive project by Sunjeong Hwang

• Created in 1988 to compile an audiovisual memory bank of Paris, the Forum des images has since celebrated cinema and moving pictures of all kinds.
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