Coïncidences

With: Judith Bartolani and Claude Caillol, Pierre Bismuth, Jean-Baptiste Bruant, Éric Duyckaerts, Pierre Huyghe, Raphaële Jeune, Franck Scurti.

In 1997, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presented Coïncidence, an exhibition where objects, images, and works were presented for judgment, risked refusal and sometimes even violence, but also provided a chance to meet and share. Some of the works generated utopia and impossibility, borrowing from scientific experiments ; others mimicked research in order to come up with new clues ; others still questioned the process by which images appear...
The Coïncidences exhibition catalog shows artists’ views of the world and features works that move in a free space where anyone can create their own fiction, giving rise to fresh speculations. Through the diversity of forms, gestures and undertakings they reveal, these works establish, inaugurate, and happen.