Oscillation
Centre culturel canadien
October 16th, 2025 - January 16th, 2026
Membrane bioplastique, capteurs d’énergie résiduelle et dispositif lumineux interactif /
Bioplastic membrane, residual energy sensors and interactive light system
Photo: Hervé Veronese
Tests de bioplastique, développement de l’installation /
Bioplastic tests, development of the installation
Photo: Vanessa Mardirossian
Évolution thermique d’un processus de calcul informatisé, laiton et aluminium
Thermal evolution of a computational process, brass, aluminium
Approx. 35 x 35 x 70 cm
Photo : Raphaëlle Kerbrat
Série de nuanciers textile réalisés à partir de déchets alimentaires, de plantes tinctoriales et de jeux de pH /
Series of textile colour charts made from food waste, tinctorial plants and pH sets
Photo: Vanessa Mardirossian
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 featuring twenty-five works and exploratory processes by Canadian and French artists and designers. The exhibition explores material and symbolic processes – living and semi-living – that evolve over time.
Oscillation unfolds like a constellation, organized around a central work, Fossilation, a large bioplastic membrane that illuminates the materiality of digital technologies, so often imagined in their immateriality. This suspended installation – whose tentacular cables extend throughout the space, feeding the work with the building’s residual energy – anchors the exhibition in an active quest to create environments that take shape in the porosity between practices and in the activation of connections between objects, materials, flows, researchers and the public.
Oscillation bears witness to movements between research and creation, the sensible and the intelligible, light and darkness. This dynamic exhibition oscillates from one state to another, following the variations of its entire lighting system. responding to variations across 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 for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and the Pedagogical Research Fund of the University of Toronto Mississauga; and the Reflective Interaction research group of the EnsadLab, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. Oscillation is also supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SHHRC) and Hexagram, a research-creation network in arts, cultures, and technologies.
Curators :
Catherine Bédard, Alice Jarry, Samuel Bianchini, Marie-Pier Boucher
Artists :
Lorella Abenavoli, 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., Vanessa Mardirossian, 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.
Lighting design: Nathalie Perrier
Research-creation engineering: Alexandre Mazel
Screen-printing: Philippine Joyeux, Pascal Viel
Coordination support: Lauren Knight
3D modelling: Daphne Siracusa
