Eyes wide open

Curiosity is a fluid that penetrates the places and crosses the times. It flows through the keyholes, spreads in the galleries and settles in the museums. It drips and exposes. It lingers in the corners. Curiosity covers works in its path. It then discovers them. What if the works were curious about us? Les Yeux grand ouverts is an exhibition at Le Cloître des Billettes under the collective gaze of disproportionate ocular globes. This is a trip between artworks and visitors designed by the French artist Ikse Maître in collaboration with the Dutch artist Vincent Breed. Its a collection of shared snooper twinklings and of glances full of desire to share.

 

Les Yeux grand ouverts - Nuit Blanche 2017 - Cloître des Billettes ©2017 Matthieu Courgeon

Exhibition dates

During the night, between october 7 and 8, 2017 (La Nuit Banche à Paris 2017), from 7pm to 5am.
Press-view: october 6, 2017, from 7pm to 9pm.

Exhibited artworks

L'Œil de Mars (The Eye of Mars) - Martian artwork for visitors, sensors, loudspeakers, computers, lenses, mirrors and video-projectors, made of aluminium and acrylic.
Les Yeux d'Argus (The Eyes of Argus) - Ocular globes in mouth blown glass

Artists

Ikse Maître
Vincent Breed

[Computer graphics and affective computing] Matthieu Courgeon
[Music composition] Vincent Hulot
[Humain-machine interaction] Michèle Gouiffès
[Optics] Karen Perronet
[Mars astrophysics] François Poulet and Mathieu Vincendon
[Making et mediation] Tanguy Boucneau
[Making and logistics] Julien Kozlowski and Ismail Konaté
[Music spatialization] David Poirier-Quinot

Curators of the exhibition

Ricardo Fernandes, executive director
Thierry Renaudin-Viot

Place

Centre Culturel Cloître des Billettes
24 rue des Archives, Paris 4e, France

Pictures