Time Capsule Exhibition Explores Temporal Multiplicity at Maison des arts de Malakoff

The group exhibition 'Time Capsule' at Maison des arts de Malakoff, curated by Anaël Pigeat and Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, runs from January 14 to March 14, 2012. It presents works that engage with time across generations, from Marcel Duchamp to Audrey Martin. Chino Otsuka's photographs simultaneously depict the artist as child and adult, illustrating the idea that 'I is another'. Anne Brégeaut's 'Anniversaire' uses bundled, partially burned candles to evoke the ambiguity of birthdays—joy in being alive and a step toward death. Guido van der Werve proposes canceling time, while Duchamp's 'Anemic Cinema' (1925-26) creates an illusion of perpetual motion. John Smith's film manipulates time, and Pierre Bismuth's 'Link #7' demonstrates Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Audrey Martin's blurred, upside-down end credits suggest an endless finale, like a flatlining encephalogram. The exhibition includes artists of different generations and was reviewed by Raphaël Cuir.