Curator Statement

Exhibition April 7-23, Plateforme Paris

The second opus of the Outland exhibition brings together, in the framework of ISEA2023, the work of Marija Avramovic & Sam Twidale, Golnaz Behrouznia and Sandrine Deumier. Focusing on the hybridization Real/Fiction, Nature/Synthetic, Humans/Avatars, Outland defines an introspective journey on new realities intrinsically linked to scientific neologisms. Micro-worlds, synesthesias and techno-biologisms attempt to create new forms between the artificiality of digital imaginaries and the limited reality of the living and ecosystems.

Mineral, vegetal, abstract, living, artificial forms merge, communicate in an attempt to create a new impossible genesis. Falsified, modified, printed, nature becomes pure allegory or past memory, loses its original meaning and becomes an artefact. A decontextualised element.

Outland’s works participate in the loss of reference points of what could be defined as the memory of a harmonious time. They are the memorial alteration of a past connected to the natural elements. They are also the mental representations of a post-human future, immersed in autonomous algorithms, genetic transformations and technological ex nihilo. They are indeed part of Outland, the territories beyond the earth.

Falsified, modified, printed, nature, which has become pure allegory or past memory, loses its original meaning to become an artifact. A decontextualized element. Outland
‘s works participate in the loss of landmarks of what could be defined as the memory of a harmonious time. They are the memorial alteration of a past connected to the natural elements. They are also the mental representations of a post-human future, immersed in autonomous algorithms, genetic transformations and technological ex nihilo.

They are indeed part of Outland , the territories of Outland.

Artists:
Xenoangel (Marija Avramovic & Sam Twidale), ISEA2023 selected artists
Golnaz Behrouznia, ISEA2023 selected artist
Sandrine Deumier, ISEA2023 selected artist

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• François Ronsiaux (FR) Founder, Associate Managing Director of Plateforme (Platform). Artist, curator and manager of the Plateforme venue, initiator of the BIT20 project, curator and organizer of the SPACE ODDITY Exhibition (Greater Paris Photography Month 2017) and many other projects linked to contemporary art and new forms of creation. Graduated from the Multimedia school in Paris. Plateforme is dedicated to contemporary art diffusion, creation and resource, and works as a unifying and shared space, a place of exchanges between artists, curators and audiences. Plateforme is run by the Parisian structure L’entreprise bringing together around fifty international artists.