When Clinamen becomes a symphony
When Clinamen becomes a symphony, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot hears chaos in stillness. Inside the Bourse de Commerce, porcelain becomes philosophy. When the ancient Greeks spoke of “clinamen,” they meant a slight swerve, an unpredictable deviation. It explained how atoms escaped perfect order to bring the universe to life. Today, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot reclaims that word in a world obsessed with precision.
When Chaos Finds Harmony
The rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce is already cinematic. Circular, echoing, celestial. Into it, Boursier-Mougenot installs an 18-meter basin of blue. A soft tide ripples beneath hundreds of porcelain bowls. Each one drifts, collides, sings. This isn’t performance, it’s emergence. The artist lets go, and sound arises without intervention. Visitors step into silence, and then hear resonance.
Courtesy of Finn Partners.
Boursier-Mougenot, the art of unintentional chance
The bowls’ random contact generates melody, but it’s never the same twice. However, this is not a score it’s infinite. Because no one is playing, no one is in control. The atomist Lucretius called clinamen the spark of creation. It allowed particles to meet. In fact, Boursier-Mougenot updates that logic: randomness as beauty. He transforms ancient physics into musical poetics.
The listening body
There are no screens, no speakers, no wires. Everything comes from water, ceramics, and air. While immersive art often leans digital, clinamen turns back toward tactility, time, and the body. Visitors speak in whispers, and children sit without being told. Instinct takes over, and as soon as you pause, the piece responds. Sound is sculptural: one bowl taps another, a note shivers through the dome. You don’t just hear clinamen, you feel it in your ribs, in your breath.
Boursier-Mougenot’s final resonance
When Clinamen becomes a symphony it isn’t a spectacle, it’s surrender. In a curated city, Boursier-Mougenot offers something rare: radical gentleness. Stillness becomes a symphony. The bowls speak if we listen.
For another take on how movement becomes meaning, discover The Moving Memory Project’s poetic return to NYC.
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