Curator Statement

Exhibition. Grand Palais Ephémère, June 23 – 25

Palais Augmented, the first festival dedicated to artistic creation in augmented reality and immersive cultural innovations returns for a third edition with the common theme of the avatar, virtual bodies and their relationship to physical, political and social bodies. This festival, an initiative of Fisheye and the Rmn – Grand-Palais, aims to draw up a real inventory of technological innovations linked to culture.

On the program this year, a journey of new works in augmented reality created by international artists and accessible from your smartphones, interactive digital experiences in spaces called “labs” and a public agora , addressing themes related to contemporary digital creation. .

The artists exhibited: Liu Bolin (born in 1973, China), Lu Yang (born in 1984, Japan), Salomé Chatriot (born in 1995, France).

The institutions present: Opéra National de Paris, Chaillot Théâtre National de la Danse, Universcience, ISEA, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Grand Palais Immersif, Francetv, Gobelins PARIS, ECAL – Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, EDF, ENSAD.

In order to make the most of the exhibition, be sure to:
bring your cell phone charged to full power
bring your headphones or earphones
download the event application needed to view the works

Source: https://www.grandpalais.fr/en/thematique/palais-augmente-3-program

• Grand Palais Ephémère (Temporary Grand Palace). In March 2021, after a century of vibrant life, the Grand Palais closed its doors to enter a major phase of work. This will last until the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games for the Nave and the galleries surrounding it, and until spring 2025 for the rest of the monument. The vagaries of history and time made this restoration imperative: weakened and fragmented, the monument suffered from a general state of dilapidation. 121 years after its creation, the Grand Palais is writing a new page in its history. In order to report behind the scenes of this extraordinary project and the major stages which will structure it until 2025, videos, photo texts and audio recordings will be regularly shared online, testimonies of this restoration of a rare magnitude which will offer the Grand Palace a true renaissance.