INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTERS
Friche La Belle de Mai

Seita Theater📍

2 pm For the soul catches fire when it stops loving (45’)

“I came on fire to this desert to burn
For the soul catches fire when it stops loving” (L.DS.)

* Content warning: 2 works contain stromboscopic images

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3:15 pm I can’t stand, the sky pours down onto my hands (43’)

“I can’t stand, the sky pours down onto my hands 
It doesn’t make sense, the sky returns underneath my feet” (C.)

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4:30 pm Fade away and radiate (43’)

“Silver pictures move so slow
Golden tubes faintly glow
Electrice faces seem to merge
Fade away and radiate” (B.)

* Content warning: 1 work mentions war

Tour Panorama 3rd floor📍

6 pm Opening of the exhibition

20 video installations from October 18, 2024 to January 19, 2025
(Wednesday to Friday from 2 pm to 7 pm – Saturday and Sunday from 1 pm to 7 pm)

Tour Panorama 3rd floor📍

6-8 pm Performance ‘Métalogos’ by Brigitte Valobra & Wald (30′)

Gestural, theatrical and almost dance-like dialogue, improvised, undefined, evolving, free. Here they are in a public space delivering monologues in pairs, silently. Slowness, freeze frames. A dimension is established, interior, assumed, suggested, a contemplation.

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8:30 pm I can’t find my place without a claw or a shell (46’)

“But who am I in this world
I can’t find my place
without a claw or a shell
But who am I here” (M.DR.)

* Content warning: 1 work contains nudity and scenes of physical torture

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9:45 pm Under the erasures, my handwriting, my scars  (25′ + 5′)
screening program followed by a performance

“So many wounds under my armour
Pure pain, hard eyes
Under the erasures, my handwriting, my scars” (S.)

* Content warning: Some works contain nudity, images of scars and bodies modified by AI

Followed by the performance Cicatrices by Malubea (5′)

The laughter, the tears, the pain, the blows, the losses are all part and parcel of our lives, leaving marks and scars on our bodies. The scars : Making them beautiful is part of reconstruction, survival and life.

Seita Theater📍

2-11 pm 3 installations

Inside and outside the Seita Hall