Oscillation - Canadian Cultural Centre

Fossilation, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, 2021
Membrane bioplastique, capteurs d’énergie résiduelle et dispositif lumineux interactif /
Bioplastic membrane, residual energy sensors and interactive light system
Photo: Hervé Veronese

Opening : October 15, 2025, 6pm-9pm (last entrance 8:30pm)

As part of Némo – Biennale internationale des arts numériques de la Région Île-de-France, produced by CENTQUATRE-PARIS, the Canadian Cultural Centre presents Oscillation, a group exhibition gathering fifteen works and exploratory processes by Canadian and French artists and designers. The exhibition incorporates material and symbolic, living and semi-living processes that metamorphose over time.

Oscillation is a group exhibition gathering twenty-five works and exploratory processes by Canadian and French artists and designers. The exhibition incorporates material and symbolic, living and semi-living processes that metamorphose over time.

Oscillation unfolds like a constellation organised around a central work, Fossilation, a large bioplastic membrane that illuminates the materiality of digital technologies often imagined in their immateriality. This suspended installation – whose sprawling cables distributed throughout the space feed the work with the residual energy of the building – anchors the exhibition in an active quest to create environments that take shape in the porosity between practices and in the activation of relays between objects, materials and flows, researchers and the public.

Oscillation bears witness to movements between research and creation, the sensible and the intelligible, light and darkness. A dynamic exhibition that oscillates from one state to another, following the variations of its entire lighting system.

An exhibition 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 nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. Oscillation is also supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Hexagram: Research-creation Network in Arts, Cultures, and Technologies.

Curators :

Catherine Bédard, Alice Jarry, Samuel Bianchini, Marie-Pier Boucher

Artists :

Lorella Abenavolli, Brice Ammar-Khodja, Alexandra Bachmayer, Jacqueline Beaumont, Samuel Bianchini, Marie-Pier Boucher, Jean-Michaël Celerier, Yiwen Chen, Maria Chekhanovich, Beth Coleman, Audrey Coulombe, Arthur Enguehard, Maude Girault, Matthew Halpenny, Alice Jarry, Raphaelle Kerbrat, Lauren Knight , Anne-Marie Laflamme, Guillemette Legrand, Annie Leuridan, Corentin Loubet et al., Alireza Moezi, Aurélie Mosse et al., Joel Ong, Guillaume Pascale, Asa Perlman, Ana Piñeyro, Olivain Porry, Suarjan Prasai, Ramin Sedagheti, Jane Tingley, Philippe Vandal, Félix Vaneste, Lee Wilkins, Aline Zara.