The exploration of territories, whether physical or mental, is naturally linked to the need for humans to understand their environment, to seek answers to fundamental questions they ask about the endless nature of the skies as of the mind. An exploration that aims also to ease and to answer their gaining curiosities, inquires and uncertainties, which are the exact essence to the very nature of humankinds, and their motor, that has allowed them to evolve and to advance over the centuries.
The world as we know it has been attributed three dimensions: space, length-width-depth and time. That how humans are capable of perceiving their environment, in at least 3 dimensions. This is a mind-bending opportunities that other dimensions must exist out there. One of the leading physics model, the cord/string theory, born within the last half century, claims that the universe in fact functions with 10 dimensions.
This superstring theory attempts to explain the physical functioning of our universe and nature, and allows us to understand the infinite possibilities by which it could have been created and developed. It has made it possible to see the universe in a radically different way. However, it does not allow us to experience these other 7 dimensions or to really understand them because of a limited capacity of human senses and therefore of their comprehension.
According to Einstein “Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.”
If science and exploration do not or cannot yet provide definitive answers to certain questions of the other possible realities/and of other dimensions, they feed the vision and the imagination of society, and in more precisely of artists looking to propose and to produce new hypotheses, resulting with artistic production of infinite and inexhaustible ideas, forms, texts, dreams, etc.
These important scientific advances are fundamental to knowledge and are constantly in progress, although still remain of great mysteries to scientists.
The Arts may have this singular place; opening up to the fields of endless possibilities, by foreseeing the realm of intuition, using the sensible as a mode of exploration of all other dimensions that humans have sought to reach or to understand.
An inquiry also through shamanic and divinatory practices, that relate to intuition as to spirituality; an investigation into the functioning of the human mind as to its “soul” looking for a links also with the afterlife, with the ancestors, as with nature.
This is what the 2nd part of the exhibition A Kind of Magic: in search of other dimensions proposes to explore through 8 artistic projects.
Among the artists presented in this exhibition, some see their work as being nourished by transcendental or random forces, such as Couli Art's Lascaux 5, Tal Waldman's Hasards dirigés or Margarete Kiss' Hotline Fortune telling, who will attempt to answer the public's major existential questions throughout the exhibition via her Hotline.
Others envisage great myths in parallel universes (Zoe Grindea and her interstellar journey), or seek to reveal worlds or invisible bodies such as Rosalyn Driscoll's Poetics of Skin, or Fiona Morehouse's Worlds Within Worlds. Finally, Luz Fandino and the collective Sansraison question memory and our contemporary lifestyles by projecting themselves into alternative dimensions.