In a world transformed by digital technologies, illusion emerges as a critical, speculative, and poetic tool. By intertwining artificial intelligence, regenerated nature, and optimistic science fiction, the exhibition explores—through around thirty works—both old and new utopias.
Immersive paintings whose characters begin to sing, voices that morph into landscapes, plants that generate images, and fictions that resurrect the past while visualizing the future… Each work presented pushes the boundaries of perception and reality, unveiling alternate worlds where humans coexist with nature and machines.
Between science and myth, memory and data, the artists explore our relationship with the living, with technology, and with imagination. Here, utopias are no longer futuristic promises, but hybrid spaces, oscillating between nostalgia and speculation. They are illusions we believed lost, now revealed by the digital realm—in another world, our own!
Nature Portals © Markos Kay
Face of Universe © Tatsuru Arai
Renaissances
Tribute to Margaret Cavendish, tutelary figure of the Némo Biennial 2025
Inook – Le Mégamix du Louvre-Lens – 2024-2025
Anne Bourassé et Mounir Ayache – Désert de Retz II – 2025
Thomas Garnier – Augures – 2025
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm – I See it, So You Don’t Have To – 2025
Donatien Aubert – L’Héritage de Bentham – 2024
Éric Vernhes – Meeting Philip – 2024
Riccardo Giovinetto – F E M I N A | I R I S - 2023
Obvious – L’Astrologue – 2023
A new world
Markos Kay – Nature Portals – 2023
Markos Kay – Voices In The Machine – 2023
Tatsuru Arai – Face Of Universe – 2024
Marc Lee – Speculative Evolution – 2024
Phygital Studio – Plant Being – 2025
Peter Van Haaften, Michael Montanaro, Garnet Willis – On Air – 2024
The Quantum of Canticles
Libby Heaney – QX Extended Advertisement & QX Product Launch Video – 2022
Caroline Delétoille, Aurore Young, Céline Boisserie-Lacroix – Sensation quantique – 2025
Kaspar Ravel – Lost Lores of Logic – 2025
Matthieu Poli – Le Monolithe de l’infini – 2016-2025
Markos Kay – Quantum Fluctuations – 2016
Utopia’s Island
David Rokeby – Voice Scroll – 2024
Andy Thomas – Visual Bird Sounds – 2020
Le NeoConsortium – Biodiversité 2.0 – 2025
Rachel Maclean – Duck – 2024
Christian Delécluse – Quand les ordinateurs portaient des jupes – 2023
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis – REWILD – 2025
Bruce Eesly – Le Fermier du futur – 2024
Beatie Wolfe – Smoke And Mirrors – 2024
Data Sky
Valentine Maurice – D A T A S K Y – 2025
Artistic Direction: Gilles Alvarez and José-Manuel Gonçalvès
With: Donatien Aubert • Anne Bourassé and Mounir Ayache • Tatsuru Arai • Christian Delécluse • Caroline Delétoille, Aurore Young and Céline Boisserie-Lacroix • Bruce Eesly • Thomas Garnier • Riccardo Giovinetto • Libby Heaney • Inook • Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis • Markos Kay • Marc Lee • Rachel Maclean • Valentine Maurice • NeoConsortium • Obvious • Phygital Studio • Matthieu Poli • Kaspar Ravel • David Rokeby • Andy Thomas • Peter Van Haaften, Michael Montanaro and Garnet Willis • Éric Vernhes • Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm • Beatie Wolfe
