La chambre virtuelle
Galerie Nicolas Robert•May 28, 2026 — Jul 11, 2026
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The overexploitation of natural resources, the expansion of computational systems, and the automation of existence are now part of the dominant mechanisms controlling our lives. The gears of digital capitalism are driven by the relentless extraction of minerals, energy, attention, and subjectivity. In the era of the algorithmic regime, our bodies become legible, quantifiable, and predictable. Our faces are converted into statistical models, our gestures into exploitable behaviors, and our desires into transactional data. In this context of total disembodiment, what does it still mean to inhabit a space of one’s own? How can we preserve a zone of opacity against the logics of invasive and permanent visibility imposed by technologies?
With this new iteration of La chambre virtuelle, Dominique Sirois builds a sculptural habitat where alchemy, the tradition of the occult sciences, computer archaeology, and the speculative imagination meet. Presented this winter in Rouyn-Noranda—a territory…
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La chambre virtuelle
Galerie Nicolas Robert•May 28, 2026 — Jul 11, 2026
Press Release
The overexploitation of natural resources, the expansion of computational systems, and the automation of existence are now part of the dominant mechanisms controlling our lives. The gears of digital capitalism are driven by the relentless extraction of minerals, energy, attention, and subjectivity. In the era of the algorithmic regime, our bodies become legible, quantifiable, and predictable. Our faces are converted into statistical models, our gestures into exploitable behaviors, and our desires into transactional data. In this context of total disembodiment, what does it still mean to inhabit a space of one’s own? How can we preserve a zone of opacity against the logics of invasive and permanent visibility imposed by technologies?
With this new iteration of La chambre virtuelle, Dominique Sirois builds a sculptural habitat where alchemy, the tradition of the occult sciences, computer archaeology, and the speculative imagination meet. Presented this winter in Rouyn-Noranda—a territory…






































