
AGATHE SIMON
Cosmos Cycle
Exhibition & Three-channel documentary
© Agathe Simon
The “Cosmos” cycle is dedicated to the ultimate unknown: the origin of the universe. It includes the “Ex Nihilo” exhibition and the “Celestial Attraction” three-channel documentary.
The Cosmos Cycle began with the meeting of two Argentine women in a high-altitude desert: llama breeder Yolanda and cosmologist Beatriz. Each leads a small community and has developed her own vision of the origin of the universe.
The Celestial Attraction three-channel documentary focuses on the meeting of these two women in the Andean highlands.
The Ex Nihilo exhibition focuses on the theme of ex nihilo creation and revolves around a videopera that sets to music the contrast between two territories (the Normandy bocage and the high-altitude desert) where the visions of three women on creation unfold: Yolanda, Beatriz, and the author of this cycle. This exhibition includes a multi-screen videopera, sculptures, mixed media, a participatory piece, a digital collage, a sound installation, and a performance.
This project is supported by the CNC (National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image), the DRAC Île-de-France (French Ministry of Culture), the ADAGP (the first french visual artists’ rights management organisation), as well as the Splash project supported by RN13BIS – contemporary art in Normandy, thanks to the support of DRAC Normandy and the Normandy Region. It was developed as part of the 2022 Documentary Workshop at La Fémis (National Higher School of Image and Sound Professions).
This cycle is developed in partnership with the AstroParticule & Cosmologie (APC) laboratory under the leadership of the University of Paris, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the Paris Observatory, and the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) in France, as well as, in Argentina, the Technology in Detection and Astroparticles Institute (ITeDA), affiliated with the National Commission of Atomic Energy (CNEA), the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), and the University of San Martín (UNSAM).








