The XXth century has seen the confrontation between art and science, and for last decades, between new technologies and computers. The issue is the changing of our way of looking art-work. A new connection between art and body manifests itself, with its materialization and its disappearance.

According to scientists, we are hybrid for a long time. But this century beginning shows a recent and great consciousness of evolution. Now, we feel as part of a whole, and we realize that, like it, we change.

We can see these indecision ideas, quantic hesitations inside the matter and the human being. Now, it becomes really difficult to distinguish thought and reality, with this indecision. The virtual makes natural to see appearing things which just come from our head.

In our world, science meets fiction, indecision replaces reason, human beings lose control of machines and their productions. Then, avant-garde artists play an important role of railings.

Bernard Pourrière belongs to them. Without fear, he shows us our future.

According to him, art-work changes, combines itself. It is not any more fixed, neither on the length nor in the space.

He asks himself about body’s mutation, limbs adds, cloning.

This exhibition explores, as other contemporary artists, new ways of human changing, for the worst, but, we wish too, for the best.

Christian Depardieu

They are the natural sciences, theories of evolution.

My sound installations, videos and computer graphics and are underpinned by the latest developments in the natural sciences, evolutionary theory and living systems.

Genetic engineering has brought about a merging of robotics and biotechnologies. New technologies, artificial intelligence, cloning and other forms of hybridisation call for a reassessment of the artifactual-body; prosthetic and with new capabilities.

The contemporary body, which includes our own, will not become ‘technological’ as such, but will have to redefine itself in terms of its reality and its gestures. It is the uses of the body and its new parameters body that I explore in my art.

Bernard Pourrière