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I am delighted to announce a new solo exhibition with Galerie Charlot in Paris, running from April 16 to July 6, 2026, exploring the concept of artificial beings through both recent and seminal works.

For the past 30 years, I have placed these algorithmic entities, which reproduce fundamental equations of life in the form of computer programs, at the heart of many of my artistic creations. My aim is to question the nature of humans, which are first and foremost animals, which are first and foremost living beings. This exhibition offers me the opportunity to compare their artificial ways of being with our own ways of being alive.

I look forward to seeing you there!

Exhibition: Being Machine
Galerie Charlot
47 rue Charlot
75003 Paris

From April 17 to July 4, 2026

Etre Machine (Being Machine)
The advent of Artificial Intelligences into society raises questions about their coexistence with humans, not only economically, but also in terms of identity and relationships: can machines create, have empathy, desires, morality, rights, and responsibilities? AI is also a mirror of our own determinations, for aren’t we, like them, programmed?

For 30 years, Antoine Schmitt’s work has explored the modes of being of living and artificial entities through the lens of the processes of movement . This exhibition brings together both early and recent works that draw connections between fundamental mechanisms of life and those of artificial beings based on electronics and algorithms.

The artificial entities at work operate at simpler and deeper levels of existence than the associative intelligence deployed by generative AI, but they pose the same existential questions, perhaps in a more direct way. Thus, certain works, such as Le Pixel Blanc (1996), the Machinimales sculptures (2025) created with the intermedia artist Hortense Gauthier, or the 10000 Pistes plotters (2026), embody essential processes of life in their algorithms, while others refer us back to our own ontological systems, such as Generative Quantum Ballet (2021) or the Blur series (2025).

In these times of identity withdrawal and recomposition of our relationship to the living world, the exhibition space thus becomes a space for dialogue and negotiation between different entities considered equal, inviting transbiological encounters, an openness to otherness.