Comment bâtir un univers qui ne s’effondre pas deux jours plus tard 1/3 : Simulacres — Maison populaire — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: January 13 → March 26, 2016

Simulacres — Maison populaire, Montreuil Premier volet d'un triptyque d'expositions, Simulacres , présentée à la Maison populaire de Montreuil, propose un parcours qui fait... 1 - Pas mal Critique

Curators in residence: Marie Koch and Vladimir Demoule

Where does the world occur ? And when ? What do we know about the world, and indeed, what can we know about it ? What do we see of it ? What do we hear of it ? Through what filters ? And what is our place at the heart of it ? Such questions, which philosophers, researchers, and artists have been asking for centuries, cannot be answered in this exhibition, but can continue to be explored. « Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn’t go away », Philip K. Dick answered a student in 1972 ; but though this is perfectly well put, what is it then that remains ? Whereas a copy strives to imitate something that exists, and can only survive through the original, the simulacrum is a variation on reality as we think we know it. Chimeras, fantastical geographies, non-places, non-time, “Simulacra” offers a selection of contemporary art works as so many experiments questioning reality, its limits and our relation to it… works that in themselves are not always what they seem to be.