Strange Attractors

“What is characteristic of Alice’s dream and of all oneiric visions is ­discontinuity, the suddenness of apparitions without transition, and of unstaged presences; it is the universal fluidity that surrounds and ­overtakes her, of which she is a part and that almost dissolves her.”1 1  - Jean-Jacques Mayoux, Foreword, Lewis Carroll, Tout Alice (Paris: Flammarion, 1979), 24. (Our translation)

Presented in the group exhibition Amplified Intimacies² 2 - In presenting works that integrate, among other things, tangible media-related installations and on-site interactions, the exhibition by the group Interstices focused on new forms of proxemics that develop through the use of network ­communication services (curators: Lynn Hughes and Jean Dubois; 13 September to 18 October 2008). at Oboro, François Quévillon’s installation Les attracteurs étranges is based on ­complex notions—among others, unstable balance—through an open system that links flows of matter, energy and information. Active within this system, antinomical principles examine, in the context of a privileged aesthetic experience, the perceptive conscience in its most sensitive recesses.