A significant part of our lives now unfolds online, within the continuous stream of notifications, stories, platforms, and social networks. Since its inception, the Internet has continued to transform the ways we live: likes, views, and algorithmic recommendations are reshaping how we fall in love, debate, and present ourselves to others.

From March 13 to September 27, 2026, Fondation groupe EDF presents Me and Others: Artists’ Perspectives on Our Online Lives, a contemporary art exhibition exploring the impact of the Internet and social media on how we exist in the world, meet others, and build society.

Starting from the observation that a fundamental part of our social lives has shifted into digital spaces — onto our phones, across platforms, and within constant flows of images and data — the exhibition offers an artistic, informed, and nuanced reading of today’s digital world. Moving away from both alarmist and techno-utopian narratives, it highlights the quiet migration of our everyday gestures, emotions, and practices into the online sphere.

Through a wide range of artistic approaches, Me and Others: Artists’ Perspectives on Our Online Lives demonstrates how artists engage with these transformations: self-staging and online identity, romantic relationships in the age of apps, digital communities, surveillance, isolation, and new forms of solidarity.

Behind every screen, every profile, every data point, there are bodies, stories, and emotions. And while the Internet is reshaping our lives, it remains a space that must be collectively questioned and reinvented.

Co-curated by Aurélie Clemente-Ruiz, director of the Musée de l’Homme, and Camille Roth, sociologist and specialist in online communities, the exhibition addresses key questions: What happens to our behaviors when they are filtered through algorithms? How much freedom remains in our individual and collective choices? Does the Internet threaten our ability to debate calmly and live together as a society?

Rather than opposing the “real” and the “virtual,” the exhibition seeks to understand how these two dimensions intertwine, complement one another, sometimes clash, and ultimately redefine how we live together.

Through both an artistic and scientific journey, the exhibition will present around thirty works by French and international artists, along with interviews with researchers Samuel Coavoux, Valérie Beaudouin, and Jen Schradie.