Oscillation is a group exhibition gathering twenty-five works and exploratory processes by Canadian and French artists and designers. The exhibition incorporates material and symbolic, living and semi-living processes that metamorphose over time.

This exhibition is co-curated by Milieux Institute Associate Director and BioLab Director Dr. Alice Jarry alongside Catherine Bédard, Samuel Bianchini, and Marie-Pier Boucher. The exhibition features work from more than 10 students and alumni affiliated with Milieux.

As part of Némo – Biennale internationale des arts numériques de la Région Île-de-France, produced by CENTQUATRE-PARIS, the Canadian Cultural Centre presents Oscillation, a group exhibition featuring twenty-five works and exploratory processes by Canadian and French artists and designers. The exhibition explores material and symbolic processes – living and semi-living – that evolve over time.

Oscillation unfolds like a constellation, organized around a central work, Fossilation, a large bioplastic membrane that illuminates the materiality of digital technologies, so often imagined in their immateriality. This suspended installation – whose tentacular cables extend throughout the space, feeding the work with the building’s residual energy – anchors the exhibition in an active quest to create environments that take shape in the porosity between practices and in the activation of connections between objects, materials, flows, researchers, and the public.

Oscillation bears witness to movements between research and creation, the sensible and the intelligible, light and darkness. This dynamic exhibition oscillates from one state to another, following the variations of its entire lighting system. responding to variations across its entire lighting system

An exhibition produced by the Canadian Cultural Centre in partnership with the Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and the Speculative Life Biolab of the Milieux Institute, Concordia University, Montreal; the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and the Pedagogical Research Fund  of the University of Toronto Mississauga; and the Reflective Interaction research group of the EnsadLab, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. Oscillation is also supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SHHRC) and Hexagram, a research-creation network in arts, cultures, and technologies.

Exhibition: October 16, 2025 — January 16, 2026
Monday to Friday, 10:00 — 18:00 || Free Access
Vernissage: October 15, 2025, 6pm-9pm (last entrance 8:30pm)
Centre culturel canadien: 130 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris

Curators:
Catherine Bédard, Alice Jarry, Samuel Bianchini, Marie-Pier Boucher

Artists:
Lorella Abenavoli, Brice Ammar-Khodja, Alexandra Bachmayer, Jacqueline Beaumont, Samuel Bianchini, Marie-Pier Boucher, Jean-Michaël Celerier, Yiwen Chen, Maria Chekhanovich, Beth Coleman, Audrey Coulombe, Arthur Enguehard, Maude Girault, Matthew Halpenny, Alice Jarry, Raphaelle Kerbrat, Lauren Knight , Anne-Marie Laflamme, Guillemette Legrand, Annie Leuridan, Corentin Loubet et al., Vanessa Mardirossian, Alireza Moezi, Aurélie Mosse et al., Joel Ong, Guillaume Pascale, Asa Perlman, Ana Piñeyro, Olivain Porry, Suarjan Prasai, Ramin Sedagheti, Jane Tingley, Philippe Vandal, Félix Vaneste, Lee Wilkins, Aline Zara.

Lighting design: Nathalie Perrier
Research-creation engineering: Alexandre Mazel
Screen-printing: Philippine Joyeux, Pascal Viel
Coordination support: Lauren Knight
3D modelling: Daphne Siracusa