Current Exhibition
Patrick Tresset
Céline Shen
AUTOMATA ANIMA
May 21st - 27th // June 2nd - 20th, 2026
Curated by Valentina Buzzi
If the machine can host the ghost of human intent, where does our worldly essence end and our algorithmic expansion begin?
Сhapter I ✶ Opening - 7pm - 21st of May
Сhapter II ✶ Opening - 7pm - 2nd of June
(with Celine Shen's performance Codes Morpho)
Artist Talk - 2pm / 4pm - 13th of June
(with Celine Shen's performance Robot Journal)
ArtVerse Gallery is proud to present Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine), a two-chapter exhibition navigating the symbiotic territories where human instinct meets algorithmic agency. By bringing together the robotic investigations of Patrick Tresset and the phygital cosmologies of Celine Shen, the exhibition explores the "anima"—the vital breath—as a force that flows through carbon and code alike. Both artists approach technology as an expansion of the self and the physical world, blurring boundaries between human and non-human cosmologies, and using robots and algorithms to stretch the limits of human perception, epistemology, artistic practice, and spiritual inquiry.
The exhibition articulates into two chapters, the first being a solo presentation of Patrick Tresset, pioneer in employing robots as expanded artistic medium in drawings and paintings; and the second, featuring a conversation between Tresset and Celine Shen, representative of the new vanguard of interdisciplinary artists working at the intersection of traditional techniques and code, and embodying a post-anthropocentric way of life in which robots and machines are companions of shared ecologies. The two-chapter show aims to continue the direction of ArtVerse gallery in presenting and supporting artistic productions where art and technology converge, nurturing the ecosystem with new enquiries, practices, and discourses.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm
Saturday 2pm to 6pm
Sunday and Monday Closed
Address
Artverse Gallery, 5bis Rue de Beauce, 75003, Paris