Tales From The Real World - Octobre Numérique
New - Tales From The Real World - Duo Show, Mélanie Courtinat & Pascal Greco
Festival Octobre Numérique
October 11 to November 9, 2025, at la Chapelle des Trinitaires, Arles, France.
”Between images and worlds, reality and fiction, storytelling and experience, Tales From the Real World brings together two exceptional international artists. They explore how we inhabit a multifaceted reality today, pervaded by digital technology, narratives, and emotions.
In the Chapelle des Trinitaires—a place of silence, light, and memory—this exhibition becomes a space for modern storytelling.
Tales that do not shy away from the real world, but expand and diffract it, probing its sensitive texture and contradictions.
Here, reality is not presented as a given: it is woven, recounted, and reconfigured in our perceptions, our fictions, and our technologies.
Tales From the Real World thus brings together works that shift our relationship with reality: neither a simple copy of the world, nor pure imagination, but an expanded reality, traversed by memory, technology, play, fiction, and the senses. As in stories, the truth is not revealed in a single block: it is discerned in detours, chance events, and suspended moments.
In the era of immersive environments, interactive stories and generated images, this exhibition invites us to look differently: to consider reality not as a fixed given, but as a living, narrative, changing material.
Hybrid Landscapes
Pascal Greco photographs video game worlds as one would photograph cities, landscapes, and deserted streets. His images, at first glance realistic, are nevertheless captured in virtual environments. They are not simple trompe-l'oeil: they question the very boundary between reality and fiction, revealing how we project our gazes, our emotions, and our narratives into worlds created by machines.
His film Places/Spaces (2025) extends this reflection: it is not a question of documenting reality, but of exploring how reality today extends into hybrid, digital, and sensitive territories.”
Vincent Moncho, director of Octobre Numérique.
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