Under the Dome unfolds an exhibition without walls, without refuge, without respite. A space of 2,000 square meters, a raw floor, total transparency. This is where the gestures of around twenty artists take place—or rather take shape—in an extreme experience: one of repetition, endurance, and commitment pushed to the edge.

Nothing here relies on demonstration or narration. What is set in motion are bodies. Bodies that rub, stack, trace, engrave, walk, lift, move, write, and start again. For eight hours straight. Without pause. Without respite. Without pretense.

Each gesture is repeated, again and again, until it shifts. Time stretches. The space transforms. The visitor’s gaze shifts. What is given is not an image, but persistence. Not a result, but a tension. In this open architecture, without partitions or hierarchy, actions coexist. They dialogue, intersect, brush against each other, sometimes ignore one another. Nothing is spectacular, yet everything is charged. The density comes from insistence, slowness, the thickness of lived time.

What one perceives is an art that does not settle for form: it seeks experience. A passage. The gesture becomes a state. The artwork becomes duration. The artists become tool, measure, architecture, and exhaustion.

One might see rituals here. Or protocols. Or silent acts of resistance. Stubborn attempts to shift reality, to twist habits, to wear matter down to its breaking point. Nothing here seeks to please. Everything seeks to endure. To stand. To hold on.

This is not a performance. It is a condensation.
Of simple gestures, repeated to the point of wear.
Of decisions upheld against fatigue.
Of fragile yet firm presences.

The exhibition unfolds over long time. It demands attention. It does not impose itself; it seeps in. And in this shared space, something circulates: a form of raw intensity, beauty without ornament, emotion without pathos.

In an era that values immediacy, efficiency, and constant change, this project claims the opposite: slowness as strength, repetition as form, duration as a political act. Stubbornness as a way of being in the world.

With Estèla Alliaud, Alice Anderson, Tina Atami, Anaïs Barras, Claude Cattelain, Arun George, Laurent Goldring, Tilhenn Klapper & Li Yun Hu & Lara Chanel, Félix Touzalin, Boryana Petkova, Siméon Starck, Albina Vakhitova, Felipe Vasquez, and Yixuan Xiao.

One-time activation on Saturday, 5 April, 2025
12 PM - 8 PM
Free registration here