Images from the exhibition “3.5” Musée de L'Arsenal and Musée St-Léger Soissons May 12 to September 3, 2023

Poster presenting the exhibition “3.5” Arsenal Museum and St-Léger Museum - Soissons 2023

Exhibition “3.5”:

Soissons Museums (Arsenal and Saint-Léger)

“3.5” is built around a unique collection of monumental glass works, created using a variety of techniques (spun glass, thermoforming, glassblowing), enhanced by lighting effects and video projections.

It offers an immersion into a fascinating world: the forms on display oscillate between the mathematical abstraction of perfect polygons and the organic profusion of Kim KototamaLune's “microcosms.”

The glass, which she works with astonishing virtuosity, spinning it into delicate networks, appears as an eloquent metaphor for our society. First, through its material, silica, which it shares with the silicon used in most of the computer chips that flood our planet.

Also through its transparency, which reflects the ideology of our time and the glass architecture of places of power. And through its fragile strength.

Solid, yet breakable, like a system on its last legs that gives the impression it could collapse at any moment.

The exhibition follows on from “Deus ex machina” in 2021, curated by Clément Thibault alongside Christophe Brouard (executive curator and director of the museums of Soissons).