After taking over the Palais de Tokyo in 2008 with, notably, an impressive lunar forest of charred trees, and after installing a monumental and ghostly sculpture draped in a sculpted black veil beneath the Louvre Pyramid in 2013, Loris Gréaud returns to the museum with an exhibition that isn't quite an exhibition at all: "immaterial, unsettling, and sometimes imperceptible," "interstitial, subliminal, and viral," the exhibition entitled "Cortical Nights" unfolds, in a succession of surprises, at the Petit Palais, where it infiltrates, with the help of special effects, from the façade (at night) to the galleries (by day), passing through the garden, "like a ghost ship" or "a haunted house." Invasive (contaminating the entire space) and synesthetic (engaging all the senses), this operatic work relies on a high-tech artistic apparatus that brings to life a whole series of improbable machines and creatures.
A new, highly technological and poetic work that speaks to us of ubiquity, freedom, and immortality. We can bet it will be the "urban legend" of the moment.
"LORIS GRÉAUD - "Cortical Nights"
Petit Palais
Avenue Winston-Churchill, Paris 8e
From 4 October 2023 to 14 January 2024
