1fa9f.space

Thomas
P. Grogan

⏰🌞

Feb. 26 – May 22, 2026

104 rue Paradis, 13006 Marseille
24/7

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1fa9f.space is an exhibition window 🪟👀 located at 104 rue Paradis in Marseille ☀. A non-profit space that showcases the work of both emerging and established artists 👫👬 on the local and 🌍 international scene. 1fa9f is a platform for the diffusion of contemporary art.

  • Founded in 2024 by Victoire Coyon, Adrien Menard and their friends, 👫👫 this project is distinguished by its form: a shallow vitrine 🪟(143×78×19 cm) on-view to passersby come day or night 🚗👬🐈.

  • The window takes its name from the unicode (U+) value of the character (Window): 🪟 in emoji language: 1fa9f.

  • Departing from the traditional format of commercial galleries, 1fa9f.space's exhibition program resembles that of a kunsthalle 🏛, with longer presentation timelines (trimonthly) allowing visitors to engage with the works and show programming for the duration of a season 🌥.

  • The curatorial approach focuses on practices of research and experimentation 🌀 that question our habits, behaviors and contexts: whether material or immaterial. 1fa9f attempts to convey the realities in which we live today.

Exposition en cours

February 26th - May 22nd 2026
Thomas P. Grogan
“I speak the bright hours, I'm silent about the cloudy ones” ⏰🌞

1fa9f continues its program with Thomas Pellerey Grogan, who turns the window into a light-measuring instrument. Moving between direct sunlight and artificial UV, the installation breathes through daylight and darker hours, causing the color of the piece to shift over time.

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104 rue Paradis, 13006 Marseille✉️contact@1fa9f.space🌀Instagram

Crédits

Art direction & Design by edition.studio 👫


Coding by 👽 Julien Privat

Vitrine 🏗 by Lionel Dalmazzini

Projet supported by Focus Focus

February 26th - May 22nd 2026
Thomas P. Grogan
“I speak the bright hours, I'm silent about the cloudy ones” ⏰🌞

Thomas Pellerey Grogan explores the entanglements between technology, environment, and belief systems. Working across sculpture, video, sound, and installation, he exposes the politics embedded in technological systems and the narratives they produce. His practice unfolds within a productive tension, a love–hate relationship with innovation. Fascinated by emerging technologies yet critical of their purposes, he reveals the infrastructures and material conditions that sustain our supposedly seamless digital world. Drawing from speculative design, folklore, and urban systems, his works operate as contemporary rituals that measure and translate invisible forces such as sound, data, or environmental change.

For I speak the bright hours, I am silent about the cloudy ones (2026), he transforms the vitrine of 1fa9f.space into a light-sensitive instrument. A sensor captures the shifting brightness of Marseille’s sky, activating ultraviolet LEDs that gradually alter photochromic aluminium panels. Inspired by the city’s historic sundials and their motto Lucidos dico, taceo nubilas, the installation does not measure time directly but reveals its trace. Oscillating between white and orange, the surfaces register the rhythm of sunlight and weather, turning the window into a chamber where light itself becomes a mark of time.