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CATALOG VIDEOFORMES 2026
TURBULENCES VIDÉO #131 | DIGITAL & HYBRID ARTS
quarterly magazine – april 2026
In the face of the world’s chaos, a single gaze is not enough — we need a thousand, poetic and plural, to glimpse what reality still refuses to show. Art is not meant to reproduce the world as it appears: it has a duty to force open its cracks, to reveal what is humanly possible. For to transform the way we see is already to transform what we dare to demand — and to build.
Elise Aspord, VIDEOFORMES Chairwoman & Gabriel Soucheyre, VIDEOFORMES Chairman
Hybrid Visions for a Disoriented World
At a time marked by profound ecological, technological, social, and political transformations, our ways of understanding and inhabiting the world are being fundamentally challenged. In this shifting landscape, art asserts itself not merely as a space of reflection, but as a vital field of experimentation — a place where new forms of perception, thought, and collective imagination can emerge.
The 2026 edition of VIDEOFORMES brings together a constellation of works — immersive video and multimedia installations, participatory environments, audiovisual performances — that exemplify the vitality and diversity of hybrid practices. These works move fluidly across disciplines, dissolving established boundaries between art, science, and technology, and opening up new modes of engagement with reality.
Across the programme, artists explore pressing contemporary issues: our evolving relationship with the living world, the connections between human and non-human, the political and social dimensions of empathy, and the critical potential of speculative narratives. By navigating between the real and the imagined, the visible and the invisible, they construct spaces where alternative perspectives can take shape.
What unites these approaches is a shared belief in art’s capacity to act — to question dominant narratives, to unsettle certainties, and to generate new ways of sensing and understanding. In dialogue with other fields of knowledge, these practices contribute to the emergence of renewed imaginaries, capable of addressing the complexities of our time.
In a disoriented world, the works presented at VIDEOFORMES 2026 do not offer answers so much as openings: fragments, signals, and trajectories that invite us to reorient ourselves — and, perhaps, to collectively reimagine how we see, feel, and live together.
Gabriel Soucheyre, Artistic Director