Screentime/s

Artists: Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Sandro Berroy, Jacky Connolly, Mélanie Courtinat, Justine Emard & Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet, Dana Kavelina, Guillaume Menguy, Josèfa Ntjam, Seunghyun Park, Sergio Razorade, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, Emilija Škarnulytė, Natalia Stuyk, Theo Triantafyllidis, Lu Yang

Curator: Kevin Muhlen

Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with FORA, a diverse programme of exhibitions and events each conceived as an open forum—a space for the circulation of ideas, experimentation, and dialogue between artistic practices and audiences. Resonating with this idea, the exhibition Screentime/s explores the way in which contemporary digital environments—video games, computer-generated images, immersive worlds, virtual realities—become spaces for the restaging, transformation, and invention of symbolic narratives. In these systems, ancient mythical structures are replayed (figures of metamorphosis, origin stories, liminal states, relationships between humans and non-humans), reconfigured by current technologies and projected into contemporary or future imaginary worlds. 

Screentime/s questions how technologies such as real-time rendering, virtual reality, and algorithmic image generation transform our cultural imagination while reconfiguring forms of subjectivity and changing the ways in which we perceive, believe, and experience reality across time. These technologies do not only affect the immediate present but also frame our experience of the world within multiple temporalities where memory, anticipation, cultural heritage, and generational projections overlap. 

At the heart of Screentime/s lies a critical reassessment of the screen, which has evolved from a simple display surface to an active and generative interface, a psychotechnical membrane through which hybrid identities, speculative realities, and open forms of visual narration are constructed. The screen thus becomes both medium and interface, a ritual space and a storytelling device participating in the production of new conditions of experience that blur the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the visible and the imaginary, the body and the synthetic. 

The title of the exhibition plays on the polysemy of the expression “screen time,” understood both as a quantitative measure of our exposure to media and as a way of existing through the screen (by inhabiting it, projecting oneself onto it, constructing meaning within it). From this perspective, screen time is no longer reduced to a passive or alienating duration, but becomes a space where time, attention, and subjectivity are recomposed. It functions as a place of introspective projection, a suspended time conducive to the emergence of mental images, intimate narratives, and contemporary forms of belief. 

Digital environments produce a specific perceptual regime in which seeing, feeling, and understanding are mediated via fragmented and often immersive structures. The time spent in front of screens transforms our relationship with reality to the point where the screen no longer functions solely as a tool of mediation, but as an active condition of perception and experience of the world, as a territory of memory, transformation, and transmission where founding narratives—creation myths, figures of origin, and stories of transformation and ending—are reenacted and new collective visions for future generations emerge. 

Alongside works that question the screen as a surface, interface, and environment, Screentime/s offers a series of collective experiences encouraging us to detach ourselves from it and shift our gaze to our inner—mental, sensory, and psychic—screens, where images are no longer meant to be seen but experienced. In these states of transition between wakefulness and sleep, presence and drift, attention expands and perception reconfigures itself. 

Screentime/s thus ends with a movement of gathering—a moment when our isolation in front of the screen transforms into a shared experience, and technology becomes the discreet medium of a renewed relationship between perception, imagination, and community.

With the support of the Institut Français du Luxembourg and the Association Victor Hugo.
Techincal partner: Audiovision Group

Video trailer: Raoul Schmitz