AGATHE SIMON
Creation Hypotheses (Fragments on the Unknown)
Series of six mixed-media works
(40×50 cm each)
Exhibition views: L’EsTRAde art space
© Agathe Simon
Creation Hypotheses cFragments on the Unknown) is a series of six mixed-media works that depicts the creative process behind the exhibition Ex Nihilo. It brings together various documents on the theme of the creation of the universe: data from the QUBIC telescope, philosophical quotations, photograms from the 3-channel documentary Celestial Attraction, anthropological sources, and archives from the history of science.
The mats reveal only fragments of these documents, forming a sort of cabinet of curiosities engulfed in darkness—evoking our fragmented relationship with knowledge and, beyond that, our exploration of the unknown. Hypotheses of Creation is part of the exhibition Ex Nihilo.
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Support & Funding
This project is supported by the Splash funding program, led by RN13BIS – Contemporary Art in Normandy, with the support of the DRAC Normandy and the Normandy Region.
Scientific Partners
This project was developed in partnership with the Astroparticle & Cosmology Laboratory (APC) led by the University of Paris, the CNRS, the DIM-Origines of the Île-de-France region, and the ANR. It was also developed in partnership with the INFN in Italy and the Institute of Detection and Astroparticle Technology (ITeDA) in Argentina, led by the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), the University of San Martín (UNSAM) and the UTN Mendoza.