Through immersive installations, as well as paintings, sculptures, photographs and new technologies, the exhibition brings together a network of over fifty contemporary artists who have redefined the development of current cultural practices.
The exhibition examines the evolving nature of artworks through site-specific installations that offer fresh approaches to the exhibition and aesthetic experience. Its title changes over time, according to the suggestions of the participants and curators involved in the project.
For the first time, the exhibition brings together emblematic works from the Fondation Beyeler collection, as well as loans from Maja Hoffmann / LUMA Foundation, in a unique layout conceived by Tino Sehgal, designed to materialize a chain reaction in which each work becomes the continuation of another. Photographs, paintings and sculptures follow one another and respond to one another according to principles of difference and repetition, touching on portraiture, architecture and abstraction.
Spread across the Galerie Principale de La Tour and around the pond in the landscaped Parc des Ateliers, Danse avec les démons offers a multi-sensory, playful and innovative experience of the work of art. Among the proposals are sculptures that look at themselves instead of facing visitors, works that react to the environment, learn a language or influence dreams. Like a living organism, the exhibition offers a more sensitive approach to the work, providing an image of a moving world in perpetual transformation. This innovative conception of the works and their presentation questions and reinvents the canons of the exhibition, as well as its history.
A series of installations by Carsten Höller, Adam Haar, Pierre Huyghe, Cildo Meireles, Federico Campagna and Dozie Kanu seek to challenge normative perceptions of time, space and reality. They function as an invitation to discovery and imagination. In the landscaped grounds of the Parc des Ateliers, around the pond, installations by Fujiko Nakaya, Precious Okoyomon and Philippe Parreno interact with the environment, creating unique experiences that respond to the park’s specific features.
The exhibition draws in part on experimental projects carried out, with the support of the LUMA Foundation, in Arles and other cities over the last fifteen years. These include Il Tempo del Postino (Manchester, 2007; Basel, 2009), Vers la lune en passant par la plage (Arles, 2012), and Chroniques de Solaris (Arles, 2014). The first part of Danse avec les démons was presented in summer 2024 at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel.
In partnership with the Fondation Beyeler
