Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Cie. Expodrome

Jean-Max Colard, Nicolas Ghesquière, Hans Ulrich Obrist, a.o.

Expodrome brings together a number of "space-times" that trigger singular experiences: Solarium, La Fée Electricité, La Jetée, Promenade, Panorama, Cosmodrome and Cinéma.
These environments make up an exploratory journey "on the edge of the exhibition". The exhibition is the medium for the artist: designing potential spaces and exploring limitations are ways of producing situations a little like staged scenes with which viewers can engage as they move through the exhibition.
She created Situations' with Fashion designer Nicolas Ghesquière (for whom she designed The Balenciaga Shop in Paris), singer Alain Bashung, composer Christophe Van Huffel, musician Jay Jay Johanson and artist Ange Leccia.
Panorama, created with Benoît Lalloz and Martial Galfione, presents, in the curved area, a contemporary version of 19th century panoramas, a luminously nocturnal vision of our planet’s great metropolises.
Tapis de lecture is an invitation to leaf through piles of paperbacks: these are the artist’s "reservoir of possibilities", the source material for her fictions.
Next, an outdoor walkway takes the visitor into Cosmodrome (2001), a launch pad with sound by Jay-Jay Johanson.
Lastly, Cinéma is a selection of Gonzalez-Foerster’s films - some made with Ange Leccia - since 1996.