IAV (Intelligence artificielle vivante)

I A V stands for Living Artificial Intelligence, it’s also Yahweh, a trivial little god who became universal, and it evokes something distant, something that once existed.

The very structure of the A in “artificial” contains the I in “intelligence” and the V in “living” (vivant in French) : after all, isn’t every living intelligence the product of artifice? Every area of ​​life we ​​know results from hundreds of thousands of years of geological, plant, and animal transformations; from the air we breathe, to the fruits we eat, and then to the earth we walk on. Artifice is not the exclusive domain of the human species but rather of life in all its diversity, its transformations, and metamorphoses.

This exhibition presents a series of large-format drawings by Jimmy Richer, a performance by Chloé Viton, a sound piece by Guilhem Causse, and a selection of works from the Frac Occitanie Montpellier and Franche-Comté. Between the belief in a distant world in formation, the world we know in decline, and an imagined future with all its possibilities, the artworks presented here reflect these three temporalities, highlighting the metamorphoses and movements of the world that have shaped and transformed it since the dawn of time.

Extracts from the exhibition pressrelease