‘Tomorrow Never Dies: Laocoön’s Hyperrealities’ is a research exhibition carried out by curator Francesca Zappia upon invitation to take part in the project ‘The Grey Zone of the Original (from Bifaces to NFT), led by artist Pierre Leguillon at the Haute Ecole d’Arts et Design (HEAD), Geneva. The exhibition is presented in the Plaster Cast Collection of the University of Geneva.

The exhibition unfolds as a stroll through a sculpture garden that invites philosophical reflection on the status of the original work of art and its copies. Using the example of the Laocoön, it challenges the way we perceive masterpieces, revealing a hidden network of cultural constructions and biographical ramifications that broaden the field of authenticity of an artwork. The exhibition infiltrates the interstices of the University of Geneva’s plaster cast collection through a minimalist intervention that aims to preserve the beauty of the space and its plaster replicas. It revolves around two videos and a spatialised sound piece, playing with dematerialisation to disrupt curatorial and museographic norms and explore new exhibition formats.