Déjà vu
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Mar 18, 2026 — May 16, 2026
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One sometimes has the impression of having already experienced a situation, been in a place, or seen an image. This sensation is brief, strange and often impossible to explain. We know it is not an actual memory, yet the feeling persists.
This exhibition is based on this familiar experience of déjà vu.
The works presented do not tell any new stories. On the contrary, they replay, repeat and reshape forms, images and movements which we feel we recognise. Some of them seem to belong to another time. Others resemble images from films, paintings or collective memory. However, when we take a closer look, there is always something that is not quite right.
Here, déjà vu is not a mistake.
It is a way of looking.
Artists work with what we already have in our minds: known images, recognisable styles, inherited forms. But they move them about, slow them down, retell them or subtly alter them.
This discrepancy creates unease. The spectator recognises something, then has doubts. He thinks he knows, but…
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Déjà vu
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Mar 18, 2026 — May 16, 2026
Press Release
One sometimes has the impression of having already experienced a situation, been in a place, or seen an image. This sensation is brief, strange and often impossible to explain. We know it is not an actual memory, yet the feeling persists.
This exhibition is based on this familiar experience of déjà vu.
The works presented do not tell any new stories. On the contrary, they replay, repeat and reshape forms, images and movements which we feel we recognise. Some of them seem to belong to another time. Others resemble images from films, paintings or collective memory. However, when we take a closer look, there is always something that is not quite right.
Here, déjà vu is not a mistake.
It is a way of looking.
Artists work with what we already have in our minds: known images, recognisable styles, inherited forms. But they move them about, slow them down, retell them or subtly alter them.
This discrepancy creates unease. The spectator recognises something, then has doubts. He thinks he knows, but…
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