By bringing together a selection of film and video works connected, whether directly or indirectly, to this unprecedented and circumstantial moment, the project offers a portrait of its time. It successively evokes domestic and family life, the interruption or intensification of work (bore-out versus burnout), the new hygienist order, the absorption of reality through the media and digital platforms, hyperconnectivity, the craze for DIY and solitary exercise, care, the exacerbation of social divides, nature reclaiming its rights, the fear of crowds or of solitude—all situations characteristic of this period, experienced firsthand or vicariously, and metaphorically summoned by the various works on display. While most of these works, created prior to the crisis, take on a new layer of meaning here, others stem directly from it and were produced by their authors during their respective lockdowns (Hoël Duret, John Smith). Taking advantage of the new strict regulations in public venues, the exhibition’s scenography has been designed to favour the solo viewing of these works, ensuring complete safety.

Echoing Fischli and Weiss’s film, which stages a series of chain reactions in the studio space—where the principle of cause and effect reigns and where we watch, wide-eyed, an expertly orchestrated succession of disasters—the Capc’s eponymous project playfully explores the fragility of any system. It illustrates how, in response to mechanisms that burst, spread and ignite on all sides, one must at all times be able to adapt to the course of things.




With films and videos by: Absalon, Nevin Aladağ, Bertille Bak, John Baldessari, Oliver Beer, Guy Ben-Ner, Sylvie Blocher, Clément Cogitore, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Stephen Dean, Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita, Hoël Duret, Anne-Charlotte Finel, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Lola Gonzàlez, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Rebecca Horn, Eduardo Kac, Mark Leckey, Jonas Mekas, Nicolas Moulin, Bruce Nauman, Julien Prévieux, Jon Rafman, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Ben Rivers, Józef Robakowski, John Smith, SUPERFLEX, Jonathan Vinel, Clemens von Wedemeyer

Curators: Alice Motard and Sandra Patron, assisted by Alice Cavender

Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1986-1987 is screened as part of a collaboration with the Frac des Pays de la Loire.