Emergency Space Exhibition Explores the Reciprocal Gaze

The group exhibition 'What We See, What Looks Back at Us' at Emergency Space in Paris challenges the traditional dynamic of viewing art. Curated around the concept that artworks actively observe and engage the viewer, the show features pieces that return, delay, and distort the visitor's gaze. The title references Georges Didi-Huberman's 1992 book 'Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde', which critiques Minimalism's credo 'What you see is what you see' and proposes instead that self-evident objects open up and reflect the viewer's own physical presence—height, temperature, position in space. The exhibition runs at Emergency Space, Paris.