For its new exhibition, the Pavilion takes hold of virtual and augmented reality to make it the subject of its next artistic, technological, and scientific exploration.

Throughout history, brilliant authors and artists have imagined different worlds through literature, painting, or music. In the mid-twentieth century — shortly after the most disastrous war Europe has ever known — artists and engineers began to gather to dream through technology and to explore it as a means of creative expression.

In an age of the omnipresence of our smartphones and artificial intelligence, artists use technology to provide a subjective view of the world and to dream of realities that are beyond our horizon, or to speculate on those that escape our imagination. Can these experiences raise our awareness of the complexity of the world around us by revealing it to us in a different way?

Curated by Ana Brzezińska