Introduction

Against the backdrop of the climate crisis, in the urgency of the present, before the storm breaks again, the artists in the exhibition invent unusual ecosystems that contain new seasons.

Whereas ancestral calendars were conditioned by cosmic movements, our frantic race for progress and abundance has irrevocably transformed our environment. Its disruption forces us to adapt in turn. Formerly the granary of Paris, the Bourse de Commerce building has been both a witness to, and an agent in, the global acceleration of predatory trade since 1889, resulting from colonization and the intensive exploitation of the planet’s resources. The building embodies this new, desynchronized cycle of time. In the iron, glass, stone, and concrete architecture of the Bourse de Commerce, which could be that of a greenhouse, a series of fleeting and contradictory temporalities appear.

The group exhibition Avant l'orage will run through September 11, while the film Untitled (Human Mask), 2014 by Pierre Huyghe will be on view in the Studio of the Bourse de Commerce through May 15 – further information.