Rêves premiers

Rêves premiers, Justine Emard’s first major exhibition in France, explores invisible realms: thermal signals from data centres, activated computer components, prehistoric data, and variations in magnetic fields. Bridging the gap between virtual spheres and the real world, this exhibition uses interaction and video games to foster a dialogue between artworks. 

Through a dozen works created between 2018 and 2026—sculptures, videos, and sound and light installations—Emard explores the new relationships emerging between our lives and technology. 

The exhibition space is bathed in a light installation designed on the scale of Le Lieu Unique. Generated from a recording of the artist’s brainwaves during a night of sleep exploration, this installation allows visitors to discover the works to the rhythym of their creator’s biological signals. As they navigate this mental space, visitors are immersed in a living, changing organism; their perception evolves over the course of the exhibition, shaped by time and the imaginaries that unfold within it.

Curator : Eli Commins, directeur du Lieu Unique, Nantes