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About the Exhibitions
In swell of spæc(i)es (2024), French artist Josèfa Ntjam imagines a contemporary cosmogony where plankton, ocean, and mythology intertwine. This immersive installation—featuring video, sculpture, and sound—revisits the Dogon creation myth to conjure a fluid world without borders or linear time. Each character is generated using AI and digital tools, composed of memories and hybrid species. A reading and reflection zone designed by the artist invites visitors to deepen their understanding of her research and practice. North American premiere.
PHI presents Unity in Darkness, the most comprehensive solo exhibition to date by Montréal-based Haitian artist Manuel Mathieu. Through a deeply multidisciplinary practice—painting, drawing, video, sculpture, mosaic, and immersive olfactory installation—Mathieu explores themes of resilience, memory, spirituality, and interconnectedness.
London- and Berlin-based collective Keiken (経験, meaning “experience” in Japanese) presentsSpirit Systems of Soft Knowing ༊·˚* (2024) and Morphogenic Angels: Chapter 1 (2023), in their North American premiere. These two installations explore themes of interconnectivity, materiality, and speculative futures.
Combined with a “world-building” room (process of constructing an imaginary world or setting), the works form a cohesive, multisensory environment that reflects Keiken’s critical engagement with human experience. The exhibition’s title, Sensory Oversoul, refers to the spiritual unity of all beings. In a “real” world where existence is increasingly threatened, the exhibition imagines future survival through connection, empathy, and transformation.
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Hors-murs
Burn from Absence by Emeline Courcier is a four-channel video installation that explores memory, silence, and generational ties. Drawing on her Vietnamese family’s experience of displacement and the use of forgetting as a survival strategy, Courcier uses artificial intelligence both as a tool and a metaphor to reconstruct fragments of lost or erased memories. Installation free of charge. To learn more about the exhibitions and book tickets, visit our
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Credits: Installation view, Manuel Mathieu: Unity in Darkness, 2025-2026, PHI. From left to right: Manuel Mathieu, Living Force, 2025; Nan Lanmou, 2024; Self Preservation 2, 2025; Dans la vague, 2025 © PHI, photo: document original
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