Acknowledging the recent pandemic and the intimate and collective upheavals it has brought about, Hypernuit presents itself as an experience of disruption — a sign of a present marked by fragments of the past and glimmers of the future, imbued with anxieties, mysteries, and dreams. Echoing the question Che Fare? (What is to be done?), posed by Mario Merz’s work at the entrance to the exhibition, this uncertain present calls upon us collectively to confront reality as much as to re-enchant it.

Most of the works on display thus oscillate between interior and exterior, darkness and light, intimate space and social space, official history and personal narratives. These pieces, rich in emotional or sensory resonance, play with effects of light, relationships to the night, and to history.

The Hypernuit exhibition unfolds like a horizon line, evoking our ability to transcend reality when it is no longer enough. It makes tangible a phrase taken from the work of Marianne Mispelaëre: “Something is beginning to crack before our eyes.”




Curators: Claire Jacquet, director of Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Sandra Patron, director of Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux with the collaboration of Karen Tanguy and d’Anne Cadenet, heads of collections

Artists: Caroline Achaintre, Dennis Adams, Marie Angeletti, John Baldessari, Richard Baquié, Sam Basu, Nina Beier, Julie Béna, Hélène Bertin, Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers, Shirley Bruno, Maurizio Cattelan, Gaëlle Choisne, Pascal Convert, Arnaud Dezoteux,  Antoine Dorotte, Richard Fauguet, Anne-Charlotte Finel, Pierre Huyghe, Charlie H. Jeffery, Anne-Marie Jugnet, Özgür Kar,  Rainier Lericolais, Mark Lewis, Paul Maheke, Benoît Maire, Angelika Markul, Randa Maroufi, Mario Merz, Vincent Meessen,  Amina Menia, Nicolas Milhé, Marianne Mispelaëre, Niamh O’Malley, Cécile Paris, Diego Perrone, Jack Pierson, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Chantal Raguet, Yvonne Rainer, Vandy Rattana, Navin Rawanchaikul et Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Sarkis, Samara Scott, Reena Spaulings, Thu-Van Tran, Rosemarie Trockel, Heimo Zobernig.

Exhibition at Base sous-marine 
284 Boulevard Alfred Daney, Bordeaux