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Magnanrama : Media, technologies, identities and networks around Nathalie magnan
Nathalie Magnan with No Anger, Shu Lea Cheang, Cindy Coutant, Chloé Desmoineaux with Bobby Brim et Ada LaNerd, Guerrilla Girls, Barbara Hammer, Old Boys Network, Paper Tiger Television, Julia Scher, VNS Matrix
25 September — 12 December 2026
Far from being neutral tools, technologies and media profoundly shape our emotional relationship, intimacies, and our ways of seeing the world. They fuel our imaginations, forge our identites and define the networks in which we evolve, whether digital, geographical, based on shared interests, or all of the above. The uses we make of it, and especially those we invent, derive our possibilities for action and resistance. This exhibition sets out to unfold these contemporary issues through the lens of a career: that of Nathalie Magnan (1956–2016), a significant yet still little-known figure in the history of media, technology and feminism. From the 1980s to the 2010s, Nathalie Magnan explored these questions from various fields of thought and action. Retracing her career through archives and films, and bringing together artists with whom she has worked or whose practices extend hers, the exhibition constructs a collective biography that highlights the current scope of her struggles for gender issues in technology and for a critical reading of media. Media theorist, filmmaker, cyberfeminist, and navigator of both the seas and the internet, Nathalie Magnan has contributed to the history of thought, media and technology, feminism and LGBTQIA+ struggles in a transdisciplinary, lively and generousmanner. Teacher,webmistress, hacktivist and artist, without ever having used this label, Nathalie Magnan has acted as a bridge between geographical scenes, intellectual and activist backgrounds, and disciplinary fields that rarely intersect and do not always engage in dialogue. Favouring collective work, using feminist and rhizomaticmethodologies where the ‘do-it-yourself’ approach is both inspiring and contagious, Nathalie Magnan has always worked to collect and bring together images, texts, people, struggles and machines. Having passed away in 2016, she leaves behind a legacy of her incisive questions about how the media shape our worldviews, her belief in everyone’s agency to create their own representations, her participatory investigative methodology, and her humour.
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