Phantastama: "Of What Are We the Reality?"

Galerie Charlot, Paris
November 6, 2025 – January 17, 2026
Opening: Thursday, November 6 at 6 PM

Linked to the presentation of Meeting Philip at Biennale Némo 2025, PHANTASMATA, the new-media exhibition by PCA Faculty Eric Vernhes, explores perception, illusion, and the thin boundary between what is seen and what is imagined.

Visions Between the Real and the Unreal

The word phantasmata comes from ancient Greek, referring to familiar things that appear in unfamiliar forms — visions, specters, or mental images that question our sense of reality.

In Baroque dance, phantasmata described a pause between two movements — not a stop, but a moment of balance, where the dancer anticipates what’s next through the memory of what came before. This delicate interplay between memory, projection, and transformation resonates deeply with Vernhes’s artistic practice.

A Time in Equilibrium

In PHANTASMATA, Vernhes turns the gallery into a space where images and sounds hover between material and immaterial states. His digital installations act as living apparitions — emerging, fading, and reappearing in cycles of perception.

Here, the artist’s studio becomes not a place but a moment suspended in time, a “time in equilibrium” where new images are born. Visitors are invited to inhabit this in-between space — to experience themselves as both real and imagined.

Exhibition Details

PHANTASMATA
By PCA Faculty Eric Vernhes
📍 Galerie Charlot – 47 rue Charlot, 75003 Paris
📅 November 6, 2025 – January 17, 2026
🕕 Opening: Thursday, November 6 at 6 PM

Part of Biennale Némo 2025, alongside Meeting Philip.

More information:
🔗 ericvernhes.com
🔗 galeriecharlot.com