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VIDEOFORMES 2026 EDITORIAL
Hybrid Visions for a Disoriented World
At a time when our societies are experiencing ecological, technological, social, and political upheavals, art emerges as an essential tool for rethinking our relationship to the world. More than a mirror, it becomes both compass and laboratory, opening new paths for imagination and transformation.
VIDEOFORMES 2026 will bring together a selection of contemporary art works — immersive video and multimedia installations, participatory environments, audiovisual performances — that explore the potential of hybrid arts, practices that dissolve traditional boundaries between disciplines and invent new modes of perception and engagement.
Whether through the dialogue between art and science, the redefinition of our relationship with the living world, the exploration of the social and political dimensions of empathy, or the use of speculative fictions as critical tools, the artists presented share a common conviction: that art, in dialogue with other fields of knowledge, can transform our imaginaries and nurture new collective narratives.
In a disoriented world, their works appear as shards of possibility — questioning our certainties and reinventing the ways we see, feel, and live together.
Gabriel Soucheyre, Artistic Director
Program
2026 poster
Visual by the korean artist Chan Sook Choi:
At a public hearing over the establishment of a school for disabled children, a mother knelt before those who opposed it. This image begins from the form of her knee. Amid the conflict surrounding the school’s creation, her body turns not toward submission but toward the ground—an act of sharing fragility with the earth. The knee becomes an organ of contact, an ethical surface where relations are rewritten through friction. This image calls forth the scene of the softest politics, practiced by those who are displaced and who leak through the edges of possession and resistance.
This image is excerpted from qbit to adam (2021), a work that reflects on the boundaries between ownership and possession.