Born in Athens in 1979, Félicie d´Estienne d´Orves lives and works in Paris. A visual artist whose chosen material is light, her installations and performances call on a phenomenological knowledge of reality and question the conditioning of our vision. Light is both the tool and the subject of her work. She is interested in defining the physical and cosmological limits of space, through light and its speed.

Her work has been presented at the Centre Pompidou – Grand Paris Express – Le Centquatre 104 – La FAB Agnès B – Nuit Blanche (Paris) – Le Fresnoy Scène Nationale (Tourcoing) – Chroniques Festival (Marseille) – Lieu Unique (Nantes) – Abbey of Maubuisson (Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône) – The New Patrons (Leuven/Belgium) – Watermans Arts Center (London) – State Studio (Berlin) – New Art Space/Sonic Acts (Amsterdam) – TBA Teatro do Bairro Alto (Lisbon) – Ars Electronica (Linz) – Elektra Festival (Montreal) – Day For Night (Houston) – OCAT (Shanghai) – Aram Art Museum (Goyang) – Tongyong Triennale – Jeju Biennale (Korea) .
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James Nizam is a Lebanese Canadian artist based in Vancouver, Vancouver Island and Berlin. His practice investigates photography within an expanded field of the sculptural and seeks to unveil the possibilities for photographic images to activate and inhabit space. He exhibits in Canada and internationally, most recently with a residency in Berlin, and at Galerie Clement and Schneider in Bonn, Musée Regional de Rimouski and Dazibao in Quebec, Kunst Im Tunnel in Dusseldorf, The Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Fotogalerie Wien in Austria, REITER Galerie in Berlin and Butler institute of American Art, Ohio. Nizam is represented by Birch Contemporary in Toronto, Reiter Galerie in Leipzig, Berlin, London, and Gallery Jones in Vancouver. He has been long-listed for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s preeminent prize for contemporary Canadian art.
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Storey’s sculptural practice lies primarily in the realm of monumental public art with a focus on the social dynamics of space, time and perception. His work often references industrial and mechanical processes. He has exhibited extensively since 1982 including solo exhibitions at the Western Front, Contemporary Art Gallery and Or Gallery in Vancouver and the 49th Parallel in NYC, the Power Plant in Toronto, Indiana State University Gallery, Bloomington (1995), and the Centre Culturel Canadian, Paris, France. His work has also shown internationally in group exhibitions. Storey has completed a number of public commissions in Canada and the US.
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Semiconductor is UK artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Over twenty-five years they have become known for an innovative body of work, which explores the material nature of our world and how we experience it through the lenses of science and technology. Their works bring into tangible experience that which is outside of what is humanly perceivable, confronting the viewer with information which is ordinarily outside of a human scale, both of time and space. Detached from its scientific framework, data becomes a material in its own form, creating a space for reflection upon our relationship to phenomena at the extremities of our perception. Their works seek to bring about a questioning of our position as observer, and a critical reflection upon how perception of the material world is always technologically mediated. Scale is harnessed to confront, through stretching the imagination and to position the human subject as part of the wider ecosystem of our universe. Through rigorous research with scientists, data, which has been obtained through observation over unfathomable distances or through experiments into the quantum realm, is embodied through sculpture, moving image and sound, framed by the very tools of this knowledge acquisition. This framing questions how the anthropocentric view of events beyond human reach conditions our everyday experience of the natural world, emphasising the subjective nature of science. Their work at once celebrates the technical and conceptual achievements of science whilst being equally concerned with the language and limits of scientific endeavour. Semiconductor’s works often evolve from intensive periods of research spent in science laboratories, including CERN, Geneva (2015); NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, California (2005); Mineral Sciences Laboratory, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (2010); and the Charles Darwin Research Station, Galapagos (2010).

Semiconductor have exhibited their work internationally, selected exhibitions include: Indivisible, New Media Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2022; HALO, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK, 2021(solo show); Semiconductor, The 14th Media Art Biennale Santiago, National Center of Contemporary Arts, (CNAC), Santiago, Chile, 2019 (solo show); The Technological Sublime, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 2019 (solo show); Quantica, CCCB, Barcelona, 2019; HALO, The 4th Audemars Piguet Commission at Art Basel, 2018; The View from Nowhere, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France, 2018 (solo show); SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Australia 2018; Groundwork, CAST, Cornwall, 2018; No Such Thing As Gravity, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 2017; Earthworks, Sonar Planta, Sonar Festival, Barcelona, 2016 (solo show); The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2016; Infosphere, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2016; Quantum of Disorder, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, 2015; Da Vinci: Shaping the Future, ArtScience Museum, Singapore, 2014; Let There Be Light, House of Electronic Arts, Basel 2013 (solo show); Field Conditions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2012; International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2012; New York Film Festival: Views from the Avant Garde, 2012; Worlds in the Making, FACT, Liverpool 2011 (solo show); Earth; Art of a Changing World, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2009 and Sundance Film Festival, 2009. Collections include: Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC USA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Sorigué Foundation, Spain; Audemars Piguet, Switzerland, private collections.
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Nicolas Wierinck, Paris