Cyprien Gaillard (*1980) works across a range of media including film, video, photography, collage, installation and live performance. His extraordinary cosmos gives new form to such phenomena as civilizational upheaval and geological time. Concerned with the wreckage of modernity and the intersections between human artefacts, urban geography and psychology, the Paris and Berlin-based artist’s work embraces a poetry of entropy that rearranges history to shed new light on the present.

Courtesy of the National Museum of Art, Osaka. Photo: Matsumi Takuya
Prolonged Emergencies
Group Exhibition
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Through October 5, 2025
We are now living in a continuous state of emergency. Unpredictable attacks, coups, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and other disasters have displaced countless people and forced them to migrate. The memory of a sudden, unknown virus still lingers, casting a shadow over our lives. Political unrest, fractured relationships, and the loss of normalcy continue to shape our daily reality.
At the same time, rapid advances in technology—especially generative and artificial intelligence—make it increasingly difficult to determine what is real. In this hyper-connected information society, where algorithms influence what we see and cyber threats grow, a deep sense of anxiety and helplessness affects us all.
How can we navigate this era of prolonged emergency? Through the works of eight artists, this exhibition examines the present moment and uses imagination to explore new possibilities for the future.