Erwan Sene’s “Checked or four attacks that will never happen,” the first exhibition of the artist’s work in Canada, opens on Thursday, April 2, 6-9 pm at the gallery.
‘The implied route, CDG–Toronto, is not a geographical anecdote. Charles de Gaulle Airport, as designed by Paul Andreu in 1974, is a mechanism before it is a place, a spatial protocol in which bodies are filtered, slowed down, and redirected according to a regime that McLuhan would have recognized immediately. “Every medium is an extension of the human body that simultaneously numbs the faculty it extends.” The airport extends mobility on a global scale and numbs the body’s awareness of space. The passenger moves, and information precedes them. Under what jurisdiction? Subject to what laws? No one stops. This is precisely what is expected. This disorientation is not a design flaw; rather, it is a condition of operation. The body is already reduced to its value as a means of circulation. The medium, here, is the message. And the message is simple: you are data in transit; there is no longer a subject, only authorized trajectories. Toronto is the city from which McLuhan formulated this diagnosis. CDG is the architecture that confirms it.’
—Pierre-Alexandre Mateos (
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Erwan Sene (b. 1991, France) is a Paris-based artist and musician. Solo exhibitions include Bonny Poon/Conditions, Toronto (2026); 032C, Berlin (2025); Liebaert Project, Kortrijk (2023); and Balice Hertling, Paris (2023). Group exhibitions include House, Berlin (2026); Poush, Paris (2025); the Aranya Art Center, Beijing (2024); Collection Lambert, Avignon (2024); City SALTS, Birsfelden (2023); Espace Niemeyer, Paris (2023); Balice Hertling, Paris (2022); Forde, Geneva (2021); MO.CO, Montpellier (2019); Musée Saint Remi, Reims (2016); and the Centre d’Art Contemporain Passages, Troyes (2016). In 2025, he composed music for “DRIP TEKHNE” at the Danish Dance Theatre, Copenhagen. His debut album, JUnQ, was released by PAN in March 2023.
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