{"id":176,"date":"2026-04-15T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanapang.myds.me\/wordpress\/novacene-1\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:26:29","slug":"novacene-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nanapang.myds.me\/wordpress\/news\/novacene-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Novac\u00e8ne"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/i>Novac\u00e8ne<\/i><\/b><\/i> (group show)
\r\nGare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
\r\nMay 14 \u2013 October 2, 2022
\r\nPart of\u00a0Utopia season, lille3000
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\r\n\"JeeYoung
\r\n\"JeeYoung
\r\n\"JeeYoung
\r\n\"JeeYoung
\r\nSlow Dance<\/b>
\r\n2022
\r\nRecycled plastic, acrylic hemisphere, acrylic color, gel medium, wire
\r\nDimensions variable
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\r\nInstallation view of \u2018Novac\u00e8ne\u2019 at Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France, 2022
\r\nPhoto: Jerome Mizar
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\r\nNovacene <\/b>
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\r\nBy Alice Audouin and Jean-Max Colard
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\r\nINTRODUCTION
\r\nIn his latest book, Novacene, the renowned English environmentalist, scientist and centenarian James Lovelock imagines the advent of a new era, the Novacene, which will follow our current geological era, the Anthropocene, marked by climatic and environmental upheavals attributable to human activity. Fifty years after his \u201cGaia hypothesis\u201d, which posits that the Earth is a living being, Lovelock shares his optimism in this testamentary work and prophecies the advent of a positive relationship between humans and the environment, aided by technology.
\r\nThis hopeful vision is the guiding thread of our exhibition. Novacene\u2019s presence at the heart of this future utopia adds a touch of dark humour by considering the world we live in today, a world beset by ecological disasters, as a bygone era.
\r\nDrawing on the imagination, commitment and foresight of contemporary artists, the exhibition explores the road we still have to travel to reach this future civilisational era.This impulse towards a less carbon-intensive world where there is greater equality between humans and \u201cother-than-humans\u201d is based on a profound change in our societies, in our vision of the world and in our relationship with living beings. It implies technological innovations as well as a vital return to the Earth, but also new ethical dilemmas.
\r\nThis challenge seems quite utopian at a time when global warming forecasts (up to +3.5\u00b0 by 2100 if we do not act) are more pessimistic than ever. But isn\u2019t the function of art precisely to reflect on possible change, and even to accelerate it?
\r\nThrough their works, artists enable us to resynchronise our relationship to time, by connecting human time to Earth time, to rethink our part as a species among species and to propose a more shared approach to the world.
\r\nNovacene offers a place of exploration, dream and union for a viable future of our planet.
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\r\nTraces of a fossil world
\r\nOn the verges of the Gare Saint Sauveur, on the fringes of the Novacene exhibition, in the buried depths of this former industrial and railway hall, the traces and ruins of our fossil world are presented like the remains of a bygone world discovered from the distant future, just like the ancient civilisations that we visit today in archaeological sites.
\r\nWhat future view will we have of our present time, when the use of fossil fuels, especially oil, has contributed to an unprecedented technical and economic boom, but also to global warming and its consequences?
\r\nPetrified petrol pump stations of the duo Allora & Calzadilla or John Gerrard\u2019s \u201cWestern Flag\u201d are symbols of a world that still exists but whose death knell is being sounded by the depletion of fossil fuel deposits and their replacement by renewable
\r\nenergy. Similarly, fossils of telephones and computers and the remains of the Last Man imagined by the Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde, as well as the sculptures created and displayed by Julian Charri\u00e8re from petrified minerals, underline the role of technology in the depletion of resources and attest to the history that was (and still is) ours: that of grandiose discoveries in the fields of energy and technology, which, through an indirect effect such as global warming, have jeopardised the conditions of life on Earth. Evoking both nuclear catastrophe and the rebirth of the post-apocalyptic landscape, Taisia Korotkova\u2019s large panoramic canvases usher us into the presence of a world that is emerging after the collapse of industrial civilisation and open the way to the Novacene.
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\r\nUtopia Hotel
\r\nFor the Novacene exhibition, H\u00f4tel Utopia offers a series of immersive spaces where visitors are invited to explore new relationships with the living world. At the same time an environmental manifesto and a futuristic laboratory, H\u00f4tel Utopia plunges into the era of the \u201cNovacene\u201d, as prophesied in 2019 in scientist and environmentalist James Lovelock\u2019s description of the future of life on Earth. H\u00f4tel Utopia becomes a place of poetic and visionary encounters with possible living forms and species. In a faraway future, where geological eras follow in succession, unexpected scenarios appear before us: JeeYoung Lee\u2019s kingdom of jellyfish or the \u201cStanding Dog\u201d by the duo Art Orient\u00e9 Objet. In this future world, humans will have descended from the top of the \u201cphylogenetic tree\u201d (which represents the evolution of species) to take a more equal place among other species, with artist Fabien L\u00e9austic. In these times of finally reconciled ecosystems, the atmosphere captured by Marie-Luce Nadal will enable the creation of intimate skies and the relationships between species will also have their share of sensuality, as proven by these acts of phyto-love by the Chinese artist Zheng Bo.
\r\nThe ecological future will be sexy, inventive and technophile, nothing else will do.
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Novac\u00e8ne (group show)
\nGare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
\nMay 14 \u2013 October 2, 2022
\nPart of\u00a0Utopia season, lille3000<\/p>\n

Slow Dance
\n2022
\nRecycled plastic, acrylic hemisphere, acrylic color, gel medium, wire
\nDimensions variable<\/p>\n

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