Between Pathways is an interactive installation that questions the modes of engagement between viewer and artwork. Based in Berlin, Gabriel Jeanjean works at the intersection of the real and the virtual, creating a tension between materiality and immateriality, physical space and digital flow. His installations operate as spaces in flux, where vision, movement, and play contribute to the reconfiguration of a setup. Through their materials and technical processes, his works challenge our relationship to the production and context of an exhibition. Through performance, sound, and new media, he composes open-ended situations that unfold based on the gestures and movements of the audience. Here, the artwork does not impose itself: it is explored, transformed, and redefined in real time.
The exhibition gives prominence to instability and indeterminacy. Each visitor can choose their own path, modulate their perception of the works, and interact with installations that incorporate movement and randomness as active principles. Far from being autonomous and static objects, Between Pathways is conceived as a dynamic, relational experience—an ecosystem where the visit becomes a field of experimentation.
Rather than a marked-out path, Between Pathways resembles a map in constant recomposition. The works function as anchor points, thresholds activating various possible trajectories. An online guide, accessible in both audio and text formats, accompanies this exploration, offering multiple readings and adaptable itineraries, encouraging the public to engage with the in-between, perceiving each work as a step in a non-linear wandering. Visitors can access this transversal, hybrid, and textual platform via their smartphones or terminals provided on site. The porous experience slides us between the tangible and the virtual, between immediate spatiality and digital extension.
In this context, interactivity becomes a gateway into the work, allowing the public to claim the exhibition space as their own. No hierarchy, no imposed route: each visitor composes their own journey. This encounter—both structured and open—supported by an optional framework that allows for unique connections with the audience, draws on numerous references to non-linear storytelling in literature, board games, and theater. From an early age, the artist discovered the interactive potential of works such as the first known "gamebook," Consider the Consequences (1930), a discovery that inspired the beginnings of his practice.
As part of this exhibition, the project uses new media as an opportunity to rethink the notion of pleasure, inviting playful experience and release. Visitors, called upon and encouraged to move through the in-between, discover the possibility of a powerful interaction between human and artwork. This participation plays an emancipatory role, and the work, beyond its purely aesthetic aspect, becomes an interlocutor capable of engaging in the construction of critical dialogue.
The cardboard pieces, scattered around a path made of recycled cork, are designed with a low-tech and sustainable ethos. Through a minimalistic and restrained approach to technology and materials, Gabriel Jeanjean thus shapes the terrain of a hybrid and conceptual adventure that invites us to dialogue, act, and redefine our relationship to visual and social codes.
