PLACE FORJEAN-FRANÇOIS CÔTÉ, PIERRE&MARIE AND MATHIEU VALADE

In an international collaboration with curator Seungah Lee of the Urban Art Lab in Seoul, Vincent Roy, EXMURO's Co-CEO and Artistic Director, is curating the group show Murmures de l'invisible, inviting Quebec artists Jean-François Côté, Pierre&Marie and Mathieu Valade.
In a world saturated by the visible, what do we miss? Murmurs of the Invisible explores ephemeral, intangible and forgotten phenomena - those faded memories, fleeting sensations and discreet connections that, unnoticed, shape our daily lives. Bringing together artists from Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and Korea, the exhibition proposes a multi-sensory encounter between public space and digital environments. It draws attention to the blind spots of perception, questioning the capacity of contemporary art to reveal the subtle resonances of everyday life and the shadowy zones that lurk beneath the surface of things.

THE WORKS

HISTOIRES INVISIBLES

Histoires invisibles by Jean-François Côté deploys an immersive, sensory space where each viewer is invited to compose his or her own narratives and navigate through a multiplicity of temporalities. At the crossroads of video installation and soundscape, the work is based on a complex system of multiprojections and audio channels, giving rise to a constellation of trajectories in constant (re)construction. Rhythms are superimposed: slowness, acceleration, suspension - like echoes of natural cycles and the breath of the world. Fragments of life intersect, brush against one another and respond to one another, weaving a poetics of place, movement and memory.
At the heart of this installation is the notion of the border - not as a fixed line, but as a zone of friction and interaction. The work questions the place of human beings in a changing world, and evokes the sometimes ephemeral, sometimes lasting traces left by their crossings of the territory.

BIG OTHER

Pierre&Marie's Big Other metamorphoses urban architecture by grafting huge eyes onto buildings, breathing life into them while creating an unsettling sense of being watched. At once benevolent and oppressive, this anthropomorphic presence evokes George Orwell's Big Brother, while denouncing our silent complicity with digital platforms in the age of surveillance capitalism.
Behind their harmless, emoji-populated exterior, social networks nurture our bonds, feed our thirst for voyeurism and help us construct our personal mythologies. By using them, we voluntarily hand over our data, which is used to guide and condition our behavior. With bite, Big Other highlights the fundamental paradox of our digital age: in our quest for visibility, we sacrifice our intimacy. Ambivalent sentinels, these caricatured eyes invite us to remain vigilant... without ceasing to marvel.

LE CIEL ET L’EAU

Mathieu Valade's Le ciel et l'eau (Sky and Water) is a video installation consisting of a series of vertically-mounted television screens, tilted forward and cascading like the pages of a half-open book. Each screen features the same slow tracking shot over a misty lake, where sky, water and the diffuse silhouette of an island gradually appear. Together, the screens form an image that is both fragmented and unified, inviting the eye to move between illusion and perception.
Valade's work is rooted in the exploration of optical phenomena, repetition and minimalist aesthetics, probing the tension between materiality and visual complexity. Here, the television screen - a familiar everyday object - is diverted from its primary function to become a sculptural element: a luminous surface that destabilizes our habitual way of seeing. Through a subtle interplay of geometry, reflection and movement, Le ciel et l'eau disrupts the linearity of the gaze, inviting us to an experience based on slowness, ambiguity and contemplation. The result is a poetic meditation on the image, its mediation, and our desire to unravel its mysteries.