raging vigil – collective exhibitionFriche La Belle de Mai – Instants Vidéo numériques et poétiques

17 video installations

Friche la Belle de Mai Opening Friday 17 0ctober at 6 pm

18 video installations, from October 17, 2025 to January 11, 2026
(Wednesday to Sunday from 2 pm to 7 pm)

What we behold trembles — yet still, we keep watch
raging vigil is a presence lit up in the night, a fragile but stubborn light, a way to face the world — by not looking away.
In the corners of a supermarket, deep in a collapsed mine, in contested streets or on the peripheries of memory, artists speak to us of a world still struggling to find its voice.
They embody it through operatic songs without orchestra, dancing bodies, digital cyclops, trance rituals or recorded love words – each a form of resistance. The ghosts of colonisation, the disparitions of biodiversity and the forces of desire emerge.
The 15 artists gathered here from Morocco, Belgium, Finland, Colombia, Turkey, Belgium, Lebanon, Canada, Ukraine and France explore this suspended moment between burning lucidity and a hope not yet extinguished.
To keep watch, here, is to disobey. To gaze anew. To repair what can be repaired – and to turn our attention to what, perhaps, can no longer be.
This exhibition aims to be a constellation of sensitive, ritual or critical acts. It reminds us that there is no art without fire, without margin, without memory.