Alberta Pane Gallery is pleased to present, in its two Parisian spaces, Nonuments, a solo exhibition by French artist Marie Lelouche, from 7 February to 11 April 2026, accompanied by a text by curator Nathalie Bachand.

For this exhibition, the artist extends the work initiated with Quasi-things simulator, a piece commissioned by the Jeu de Paume and presented online from 27 June 2024 to 28 February 2025. Taking the form of a video game, the work invites the visitor to move through an immersive environment, enclosed within a bubble, where space is gradually revealed through plays of transparency, sometimes clear, sometimes blinding.

The work is structured around large elements bearing the names of winds (Nirta, Sirocco, etc.), which punctuate movement through the space. They evoke landmarks, almost monuments, dedicated to natural phenomena threatened by climate change. Yet rather than fixing these phenomena in place, Quasi-Things Simulator offers a sensory experience centered on movement, perception, and ephemerality.

This attention to unstable forms is echoed in the sculptures presented across the gallery’s two spaces. Generated using fluid simulation software, they feature dynamic, organic, and irregular volumes. Through a play of scale, Marie Lelouche maintains an ambiguity: these forms could be objects shaped by water or wind, mineral fragments, or almost living bodies.

On the walls, photographs printed on transparent, rippled acetate seem to break free from their status as images and occupy space. Their presence echoes the immersive experience of Quasi-things simulator and extends the interplay between surface, transparency, and perception. In the second space, the floor is covered with patterns that reproduce the imprints or shadows of small sculptures mounted on the wall. The latter, which can be handled, have a transparent envelope that reveals variations in color according to the level of humidity in the space.

Through this new body of work, Marie Lelouche develops open and shifting forms that invite a different way of remembering and observing natural phenomena, favoring non-authoritative and unstable experiences: Nonuments 1.

Notes

1 A neologism coined by the artist Gordon Matta-Clark and later taken up by the philosopher Andrea Pinotti in his book Nonumento. Un paradosso della memoria, Johan & Levi, 2023.