Carré d'Art, musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, France.

Wolfgang Tillmans was born in Germany in 1968 and divides his time between Berlin and London. Recognised as one of the most important artists of his generation, since the 1990s he has produced images that sometimes flirt with art-historical genres such as the still life, landscape and the portrait, but also abstraction. Each exhibition can be conceived as an installation in which the images are connected by a skein of correspondences, links and repetitions being part of complex visible and invisible networks. They can reveal moments of beauty and desire, but also have a social and political dimension. To experience one of his exhibitions is to experience a world in which we live through the artist’s simultaneously critical and sensitive gaze. It is a physical experience in which the viewer’s body is constantly brought into play.

The exhibition What is different? will reveal Tillmans’ different ways of instituting a relation to the visual and physical world but also the other. It is closely linked to the publication of a book in which he considers the Backfire Effect, and more precisely its current banalisation, which is not without an impact on our relation to truth but also on the construction of our identity and political convictions.

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