To Sublimate

To Sublimate, a lecture-presentation by French artist Julien Maire, stages experiments in search of a “blurry matter”—closely related to speed and optics, philosophy, and mathematics. In his performances and installations, Maire moves between the habits of visual perception and new ways of looking through the camera lens, viewing the confusion between reality and illusion. Through experiments enacted in front of an audience—mechanical, electronic, graphical, sculptural, chemical—Maire presents “an emptiness that is not transparent.”