What is The World? If we had to state something certain about it, we could say that it is round and that it turns. And perhaps we could add that it contains an incalculable number of things, tangible or imaginary. When spoken in English, “The World” renders the notion even more totalising, more overwhelming, more chaotic. The exhibition The World shares this with the world. Full of objects and words that are in a constant state of rotation, it is a vast collage bristling with paper skyscrapers and full of holes. The figures that inhabit the space are mannequins with a fixed, penetrating stare: the Pinocchias. What might they think of the world?

The World is Rafael Moreno’s first solo exhibition at an arts centre in France. A series of new productions fills the first floor of CRAC Alsace. Sculptures, installations, collages, poems and films all reveal a patchwork appearance, as if they had been assembled hastily from found objects or were in a constant process of being made. In this explicitly DIY approach, the gesture always remains visible and connected to a set of considerations about what makes the world turn: the distinction between human and machine, the fictional nature of gender, our debt system. Envisioned specifically for the spaces of CRAC, the exhibition is the result of a broad interlocking process in which sculpture become film, poetry becomes object, and installations are images that we observe by peering through peepholes. In fact, not everything is visible in The World; the exhibition rooms are connected to other spaces within the arts centre that remain inaccessible to the public, such as the attic and the crawlspaces above the drop ceiling, from which some images are broadcasted. The exhibition takes on the form of an immense brain that recycles lived experiences and unconscious projections. Its meanderings are the streets that the Pinocchias explore endlessly.

Elsa Vettier, February 2026.

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Glowing, flaring, lurid, loud, a solo exhibition by Yuyan Wang will be held alongside The World by Rafael Moreno. 
On Thursday, April 2, 2026, from 6 pm, CRAC Alsace is pleased to invite you to the opening of two solo exhibitions. On this occasion, a free shuttle will leave from Basel (Meret Oppenheim Strasse) at 6 pm. It will return to Basel at 10 pm. Information and RSVP: s.menu@cracalsace.com