Chères créatures - exposition collections dans les murs

Dear Creatures is a journey through life in all its various forms, lives that are vulnerable, unstable, and fragmented. The exhibition provides a space for reactive encounters, where humans can view themselves in relation to what they have in common with animals or phantom creatures.
The works gathered here fluctuate between presence and absence, and invokes an imagination that draws on both the familiar and the strange. Whether human, animal, or hybrid, bodies never seem to be complete. They are segmented, metamorphosised, shown as traces, or as a detail, an imprint.
Through textile works, photographs, videos, sculptures, and paintings, an intimate network of life emerges in the form of a shared space inhabited by movement and memory. We might think of the notion of ‘becoming-animal’ as theorized by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari*, which removes man’s solid sense of his own identity and, in return, rescues animals from their own sense of animality. This process of transformation invites man to relinquish its dominant stance and embrace coexistence with other life forms.

"Make rhizomes, except you don't actually know how to make rhizomes, don’t know which underground stem will form a rhizome or bring about change and populate your desert. Experiment!"

• avec les œuvres de : Caroline ACHAINTRE, Carla ADRA, Angie ANAKIS, Kaoru ARIMA, Grégory CUQUEL, Jan KRIZEK, Tetsumi KUDO, Marie LOSIER, Annette MESSAGER, Armineh NEGAHDARI, Autumn RAMSEY, David RENAUD, et Sergio VERASTEGUI