In collaboration with 1703, DANAE is pleased to present La Poétique de l’eau, a group show curated by Elisabeth Karolyi, featuring Bianca Shonee Arroyo,DanieL Bourgais, Nikolas Chasser Skilbeck, Mihai Grecu, Kalen Iwamoto and Julien Silvano, Sasha Katz, Minuit, Sybil Montet, Jacques Perconte, Republic of Images, Sarah Ridgley.

Water is talkative. It speaks of creation, beauty, the passing of time and the earth beneath our feet. It conceals mysteries and surely hides treasures. Water has always carried a strong symbolism. Depending on the culture and the era, it is regenerative, purifying, protective, destructive... today it's fragile.

Since the dawn of time, it has inspired artists and nourished their representations. A perfect pretext for purely formal explorations, before the notion of abstract art even emerged! The artworks of this exhibition are no exception. Through digital means - video, compression, superimposition, scanning, alteration of tones and colors, motion, algorithms and 3D - the artists tirelessly take nature both as model and subject. And it’s about environment, life, death, but also of information overload and, of course, artificial intelligence.

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