Transparences liquides

From January 25 to May 22, 2026
Opening reception on January 24 at 3:00 PM

Curated by Francesco Biasi and Nathalie Giraudeau

The group exhibition Transparences liquides (Liquid transparencies) explores how different filters - cultural, social, or technological - shape the way we see and understand the world. The works on display invite viewers to pay attention to the very act of looking, as a gesture embedded in a body and its lived experience. In their own way, each proposes a sensory experience that engages our ambivalent relationship with the constant flow of media images.

Bringing together photography, video, and sculpture, the works address a range of themes. Laure Tiberghien explores the emergence of a motif through a protocol that places central importance on movement and gestures performed in the photographic laboratory, in an ongoing negotiation with chemistry, light, and time. Anne-Camille Allueva presents works that emphasize perception as an action of a moving body in search of a point of view: the image thus emerges less as a fixed sign than as a situated and transient phenomenon. Matan Mittwoch, for his part, draws on the optical devices of our time—particularly the screen—in order to reveal their fundamental ambiguity between illumination and blindness, clarity and opacity. Finally, Emmanuel Van der Auwera examines the circulation and manipulation of information by deconstructing the media through which images are disseminated, highlighting their potentially deceptive nature.

Whether political, formal, or conceptual, these practices converge in their questioning of the screen, both as a technological object of everyday life and as a surface that retains, diffracts, or filters light. Here, it also becomes a tool for thinking about the layered nature of our relationship to reality, in constant reformulation and never fully transparent.

Echoing artistic research conducted since the 1960s around perception—particularly in minimal art—the approaches brought together here show how these questions continue today, renewed through a plurality of perspectives.
 

Anne-Camille Allueva was born in 1984; she lives and works in Paris.
She is represented by the Bigaignon gallery (Paris).
https://www.annecamilleallueva.com/

Matan Mittwoch was born in 1982; he lives and works in Paris.
https://dvirgallery.com/artists/52-matan-mittwoch/

Laure Tiberghien was born in 1992; she lives and works in Paris.
https://lauretiberghien.com

Emmanuel Van der Auwera was born in 1982; he lives and works in Brussels.
He is represented by Harlan Levey Projects gallery (Brussels).
https://hl-projects.com/artists/29-emmanuel-van-der-auwera/