Private visit of Panoptès collection
Panoptès is a private art collection, permanently based in Brussels and with a forthcoming presence on Lake Como. Founded by Émilie De Pauw in 2015 and co-curated with Anne-Hélène Decaux, the collection is dedicated to perceptual minimalism and to the phenomenological questions it raises.
The collection’s origins are intimate: inherited from De Pauw’s grandmother while she was studying neuroethics, Panoptès was born at the intersection of family legacy and intellectual inquiry. In a world saturated with information and increasingly mediated by technology, the collection seeks in art ways of seeing otherwise and of re-anchoring in presence.
The mission of Panoptès extends beyond preservation and display. It supports artists and scholars whose work sharpens attention, unsettles perceptual habits, and explores what it means to encounter the world directly through body and consciousness rather than through technological mediation. At its core lies a commitment to protecting the singularity of human experience, now fragile under the pressure of distraction and accelerated change.
Tour in English.
Panoptès is a private art collection, permanently based in Brussels and with a forthcoming presence on Lake Como. Founded by Émilie De Pauw in 2015 and co-curated with Anne-Hélène Decaux, the collection is dedicated to perceptual minimalism and to the phenomenological questions it raises.
The collection’s origins are intimate: inherited from De Pauw’s grandmother while she was studying neuroethics, Panoptès was born at the intersection of family legacy and intellectual inquiry. In a world saturated with information and increasingly mediated by technology, the collection seeks in art ways of seeing otherwise and of re-anchoring in presence.
The mission of Panoptès extends beyond preservation and display. It supports artists and scholars whose work sharpens attention, unsettles perceptual habits, and explores what it means to encounter the world directly through body and consciousness rather than through technological mediation. At its core lies a commitment to protecting the singularity of human experience, now fragile under the pressure of distraction and accelerated change.
Tour in English.