Antoine Félix Bürcher - Ghost Out of the Shell
Grand Palais Bern•May 15, 2026 — Jun 12, 2026
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« This exhibition invites you to spend time with two sculptures and the sound of water.
You might think of these objects as fountains, or as features of some unknown future ecosystem in which the obsolete technologies of today have fused with natural processes. The amorphous glass objects rising from a base of old computer-casings have a translucent, ghostly quality, but also appear weathered; lacking the transparency we associate with glass in most contemporary contexts, they appear like the product of years of erosion, exposed to the relentless drip, drip, drip of water in a cave: matter shaped by geological time. There is an absurd incongruity between this image and the clean lines of the implied technological infrastructure. At first glance, the computer cases may seem like plinths, with strange creatures perched on their backs. But it is the water basin that delineates the sculpture from the surrounding space, while all the elements within it are connected by the relentless…
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Antoine Félix Bürcher - Ghost Out of the Shell
Grand Palais Bern•May 15, 2026 — Jun 12, 2026
Press Release
« This exhibition invites you to spend time with two sculptures and the sound of water.
You might think of these objects as fountains, or as features of some unknown future ecosystem in which the obsolete technologies of today have fused with natural processes. The amorphous glass objects rising from a base of old computer-casings have a translucent, ghostly quality, but also appear weathered; lacking the transparency we associate with glass in most contemporary contexts, they appear like the product of years of erosion, exposed to the relentless drip, drip, drip of water in a cave: matter shaped by geological time. There is an absurd incongruity between this image and the clean lines of the implied technological infrastructure. At first glance, the computer cases may seem like plinths, with strange creatures perched on their backs. But it is the water basin that delineates the sculpture from the surrounding space, while all the elements within it are connected by the relentless…
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