The Weight of Matter Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, France, 1941. A young boy struggles with asthma and schoolwork, yet finds a different kind of rhythm in drawing and painting. The son of a chemist and a school teacher, Bernar Venet moves through a religious upbringing with intentions of becoming a missionary. This early tension between spiritual aspiration and the physical reality of the world begins to shift when he discovers a book o…