Here at Doc! La Station, artist-run space is invited to present an exhibition of « Stationnautes », Azurean characters recluse in the former abattoirs of the city of Nice. La Station, a production and distribution space for contemporary artists, has been invited to Paris by Raphaël Emine, whose work includes reflections on biology and the living, supported by dreamlike and fantastical developments. This invitation is no coincidence, particularly given everyone’s interest in the place where they live and work, Nice, no matter how sublime or absurd. In addition to the artistic dimension of the idyllic landscape, conditioned by the policies in place, the environmental reflection that unfolds questions the limits of our tragi-comic end, where our carbon footprint will eventually bury us.

La Station is part of a territory full of doubts and questions for posterity. Thus, the challenges of moving from the Côte d’Azur to the French capital take the form of an artistic proposition whose end is unknown. If the artists borrow from an ecological reflection, it sets the tempo for a post-apocalyptic environment where all that remains is the Machiavellian sound of cicadas’ cymbals transfigured by anti-theft devices. If tables, machines and hybrid objects spread out alone in the 160m2 space, it’s because they’ve simply succeeded in short-circuiting the system in place. Humans are no longer at the top of the chain, they’ve « anthropo-scenized » and become the buried chicken bones that others will find in the next era. After capitalism, it’s time for the aesthetics of Chaos, organized perhaps by the Lombriciens, an ingenious species in the trophic chain that’s still all too forgotten. Paris, Paris on t’embrasse, recreates a space of determined chaotic propagation*, where each piece nevertheless retains its own breath.

*Chaos theory is mainly concerned with the description of systems with a small number of degrees of freedom, often very simple to define, but whose dynamics appear to us to be very disordered.

Pictures of the exhibition