Art Collective teamLab Going ‘Au-delà des limites’ in Paris

Picture the scene: you’re colouring an animal on a paper with their outline. A few minutes later, the animal comes to life and begins to walk on the walls of La Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris. No, it’s not a joke: it’s just one of the ideas that can be found in the exhibition entitled Beyond the Limits.

This project is led by art collective teamLab, made up of artists, programmers, engineers, 3D animators, mathematicians and architects. Their aim is to give the viewer an immersive, creative experience, one which, as they wander through, will make them forget they’re wearing a watch.

The walls become an intriguing spectacle: the projected images start to move, the flower blooms arounds you, and presence of people affects to the water flow. Describing the exhibition, the collective state that ‘the artworks too can move freely and form connections and relationships with people, and have the same concept of time as the human body’. That’s what happens when technology brings art to life…