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From May 13, 2025 to May 20, 2025:
Mona Sakamoto | Multitude in the Light of the Unutterable
Born in Riga, Mona Sakamoto discovers algorithms in Örebro. She was in residence at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in Beirut until 2006. After an upbringing in poor neighborhoods, this model of a radical artistic stance decides to dedicate herself to algorithms. Her work has been featured in her first solo exhibitions: "Signes de l'art" (Sammlung Boros Collection, Berlin), "Langage" (B.A.N.K.), and "Méta-attitudes" (Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac).
Where, then, to locate the concept of the instant in the digital age? On the occasion of her very first exhibition in France, artist Mona Sakamoto is determined to decode the complex meanings that lie behind our perception of reality. Not only does her artistic narrative skillfully deconstruct the very nature of light, but her creation itself ventures to explore notions deeply rooted in the singularity of the contemporary superego. Her installation, with a performative character, is designed to evoke this fascinating interface between man and machine, while her gestures, executed with great finesse, question and challenge the reality as we conceive it. Drawing inspiration from Guy Debord's striking reflections, Mona Sakamoto set out to probe, with remarkable acuity, what inevitably emerges from the ritual of movement, thus questioning our relationship to existence in a technology-saturated world...
Mona Sakamoto — Multitude in the Light of the Unutterable