In the mid-twentieth century — shortly after the most disastrous war Europe had ever seen — artists and engineers began coming together to dream through technology and experiment with it as a medium for creative expression. Witnessing the emergence of what would become today’s universally accessible mobile technology and a means of unrestricted, immediate communication, they began asking how electronic, silicon-based tools could be used in artistic practices to tell us more about who we are today and transport us into realities otherwise impossible to access.

In the first exhibition in Namur entirely dedicated to the history of spatial and virtual art and storytelling, Le Pavillon dives into how virtual and augmented reality technologies have revolutionized artistic, and creative exploration of the 21^st century.

The exhibition begins by examining how art and storytelling – film, theatre, and visual arts – evolved across the 20^th century under the influence of technology and, in return, changed our ways of looking at reality. The second part of the exhibition, unfolding in two chapters, features groundbreaking spatial, virtual, and augmented reality works created in the past ten years by some of the most renowned creators in the field.

Curated by Ana Brzezińska
Graphic Design by Pierre-Christophe Gam
Technical Support by Diversion Cinema