Group exhibition, and symposium presented as part of the Némo Biennale in Paris
Canadian Cultural Centre
130, Faubourg Saint-Honoré Street
Paris
Oscillation brings together twenty-five works and exploratory processes by artists and designers from Canada and France, many of whom are members of the Hexagram Network. The exhibition integrates material and symbolic processes, living and semi-living, that transform over time.
Oscillation unfolds like a constellation organized around a central work, Fossilation, a large bioplastic membrane that illuminates the materiality of digital technologies often imagined as immaterial. This suspended installation—with tentacular cables distributed throughout the space feeding the work with residual energy from the building—anchors the exhibition in an active quest to create environments. These take shape through the porosity between practices and the activation of connections between objects, materials, flows, researchers, and audiences.
Oscillation reflects movements between research and creation, the sensitive and the intelligible, light and darkness. A dynamic exhibition that oscillates from one state to another, following the variations of its entire lighting system.
Curators
Catherine Bédard, exhibition Curator and Deputy Director of the Canadian Cultural Centre (CCC) in Paris
Marie-Pier Boucher, Collaborator Member, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto
Samuel Bianchini, Collaborator Member, Artist and Associate Professor at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD)
Alice Jarry, Co-investigator Member and Co-director of the Hexagram Network, Associate Professor at Concordia University
Symposium
Within the evolving environment of the Oscillation exhibition, the international symposium Material Assemblages Before and After the Human invites participants to engage in conversations around questions of matter and meaning, process and form.
The program explores the entanglement of dynamics at play between bodies, materials, and environments, focusing on the responses proposed by artistic and critical practices to ecological changes, infrastructure, and sensory experience.
We are pleased to support the international travel of our members so they can fully participate in this exceptional exhibition and symposium.
Exhibiting Artists
- Joel Ong
- Guillaume Pascale*
- Asa Perlman
- Ana Piñeyro
- Olivain Porry
- Suarjan Prasai
- Ramin Sedagheti
- Jane Tingley
- Philippe Vandal*
- Félix Vaneste
- Lee Wilkins
- Aline Zara
Speakers
- Brice Ammar Khodja (Concordia University, Canada)*
- Edwige Armand (Université Gustave Eiffel, France)*
- Sofian Audry (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)*
- Alex Bachmayer (Concordia University, Canada)*
- Monika Bakke (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
- Jacqueline Beaumont (Concordia University, Canada)*
- Samuel Bianchini (École des arts décoratifs – PSL, France)*
- Marie-Pier Boucher (University of Toronto, Canada)*
- Audrey Coulombe (Concordia University, Canada)
- Géraldine Gomez (Centre Pompidou, France)
- Matthew Halpenny (Concordia University, Canada)*
- Alice Jarry (Concordia University, Canada)*
- Raphaëlle Kerbrat (École des arts décoratifs – PSL, France)
- Vanessa Mardirossian (Concordia University, Canada)*
- Aurélie Mosse (École des arts décoratifs – PSL, France)
- Joel Ong (University of Victoria, Canada)
- Lea Perraudin (Humboldt University, Germany)
- Danny Perreault (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)*
- Iva Resetar (Humboldt University, Germany)
- Patricia Ribault (Université Paris VIII, France)
- Jane Tingley (York University, Canada)
- Lee Wilkins (University of Toronto, Canada)
* Hexagram Network Members
Image : Fossilation, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, 2021
Bioplastic membrane, residual energy sensors and interactive light system
Photo: ©︎ Hervé Veronese
Source : Canadian Cultural Centre
This exhibition is produced by the Canadian Cultural Centre in partnership with the Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and the Speculative Life Biolab of the Milieux Institute, Concordia University, Montreal; the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and the Pedagogical Fund of the University of Toronto Mississauga; and the Reflective Interaction research group of EnsadLab – laboratory of the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL. Oscillation is also supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Hexagram: Research-creation Network in Arts, Cultures, and Technologies.
Published on Octobre 1st, 2025
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