Let's not forget that the film referred to tells the story of a journalist who inexplicably finds himself systematically receiving tomorrow's newspaper, exploiting the situation to the full, he beats the competition to all the scoops – until, one day, he stumbles on his name in the obituaries column?

The title is not a theme to be worked through, however. Rather, it uses the notionof temporal overlap to trigger the transfor-mation of a biennial into an exposition that will restore, rather than betray, the under-lying complexity of the making of art. We have tried to create the exposition as the focus for a collective subjectivity that can resist the lure of submission to unadorned reality, to approach the spectator/exposition relationship as a multifaceted experience rather than a mere visit, and to consider art as a singular language: not transversal, not mediatory, but a language in its own right.

Given the current proliferation of artists, this 7th Lyon Biennale will stress the layout of the works and the way the viewer percei-ves them. We want to call on the best there is in art: its impact as statement, its capacity to surprise and its emphasis on safeguarding the uniqueness of the event against a loo-ming failure to differentiate. To achieve this our choice of works has been guided not by their literal truth or accuracy, but by the expressive means they harness: these are open-ended works that instead of simply representing the world, set out to play a part in inventing it.

Where the artists are concerned we have opted for a generational mix, convinced that certain recent works by artists who have long been on the scene are at least as rele-vant as those of new arrivals. Together they will make up a shared landscape where all sorts of new connections will take place.

More concerned with singularity and format than with identitarian issues, the exhibition will mingle:

- specific invitations negotiated with the artists:

Piero Gilardi, Daan Van Golden, Ed Ruscha, Yayoi Kusama, Bertrand Lavier, Christopher Wool, Jorge Pardo, Franz West, Maurizio Cattelan, Jeong Hwa Choi and Lily van der Stokker,

- a monographic approach:

Larry Clark, Philippe Parreno, Olivier Mosset and Robert Grosvenor,

- re-presentation of pre-existing but seldom seen works:

Cosmodrome by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Jay-Jay Johanson, Upside Down Mushroom Room by Carsten Höller, Lightshow #2 by Pierre Huyghe, Sod & Sodie Sok by Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Krisiun by Albert Oehlen, the paintings of Betty Tompkins and Gustav Metzger's liquid crystal screenings,

- distinctive new offerings:

Xavier Veilhan's Hyperrealist Project, an Acconci Studio sam-ple, a presentation by Christian Boltanski and Jean Kalman, a new film by Rodney Graham, and a series by Katharina Fritsch,