Les augures mathématiques

Presentation of Hicham Berrada’s monumental work *Les Augures mathématiques* on the façade of the Maison de la Culture in Amiens.

A work that serves as a manifesto, in the tradition of visual artists who have been playing with the building’s transparency since 1966, *Les Augures Mathématiques* presents a vision of a Maison de la Culture et de la Nature for the future. Commissioned for the Louvre-Lens and restaged as part of a new partnership between Le Fresnoy — National Studio for Contemporary Arts and the MCA, this immersive installation brings to life forms inspired by the dynamics of living organisms — roots, clouds, lichens. Combining scientific rigour with poetic power, Hicham Berrada composes ‘possible worlds’—ecosystems in the making where nature generates itself, transforms and reinvents itself.

Hicham Berrada

Born in Casablanca in 1986, he lives and works in Roubaix. He trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. His work has been exhibited at venues including the Louvre-Lens, the Centre Pompidou, the Arab World Institute and the Palais de Tokyo, MoMA PS1 in New York, the Yokohama Triennale and the Hayward Gallery in London.