FROM ALMOST NOTHING

FROM ALMOST NOTHING is an exhibition conceived in two acts, in resonance with To Pass from One Dream to Another, the title of the 18th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art imagined by Catherine Nichols through the reflections of Robert Filliou and his principles of poetic economy.

Here, creation is no longer consideredthrough production or completion, but through what remains fragile, shifting, secondary or almost invisible.

How, with very little, it is still possible to give rise to connections, displacement, imagination and new forms of perception.

What persists despite alteration. What continues to exist in other forms. What transforms without completely disappearing.

Bringing together Juliette Parisot, Nicolas Nicolini and Nadjim Zoubir for the first time within the same project, the exhibition unfolds through two distinct yet complementary temporalities.

ACT I (19 September — 17 October 2026) brings together Lyon-based photographer and visual artist Juliette Parisot and Marseille-based artist Nicolas Nicolini around notions of collecting, assemblage, reuse, persistence and shifts in perception.

ACT II (7 November — 12 December 2026) is dedicated to the work of Nadjim Zoubir, a French artist living and working in Brussels, whose practice develops around the ellipse as a primary gesture, a minimal form and the starting point of a world in slow emergence.

As if sometimes, almost nothing were enough to entirely shift a perception.