Reconsidering the way in which we look at and through the body, the three artists create a striking visual dialogue capable of unsettling imposed designations. Blending mediums as diverse as sculpture, drawing and photography, they aim to deconstruct stereotypes and norms forged around the notion of gender and its shifting performance. Yasmine Hatimi's photographs are thus articulated as an exploration of the constitutive layers of the conception of masculinity in our contemporary societies. Under the evocative title Chasing Butterflies, her series of black and white images create moments suspended in time where the liberating potential of the individual is apprehended in all its fragility. Deconstructing an image of masculinity prescribed by social, traditional and religious injunctions, the artist opens the horizon to further meanings of this notion.
From paper to sculpture, the bodies unfold in a constant movement and engage a singular space where interior and exterior meld. The artist himself becomes the subject of study in a game of alternating perspective, where questionings and doubts are incorporated in spectral silhouettes revisiting the performances of shadow theatre. The Médula series thus follows a random gesture and traces a sensitive reality where body and space converge. Raising multiple perceptions of the body and its displacements through unstable spaces, the distortion of the figures reflects the inner commotions.
During their consecutive residencies at Jardin Rouge, Yasmine Hatimi, Ignacio Lobera and Bence Magyarlaki established a moving dialogue around the body and its wandering. Following the idea that the one who builds the world is the one who activates its wandering (Adonis, Mémoire du vent), the three artists articulate an unstable space where the body is liberated while opening itself to new interrogations. Giving rise to another space, the works present a body in quest, effervescent and wandering, whose singularity allows to suggest new perspectives in our ways of being. Tracing the multiple imprints of a bodily memory through a body that seeks and questions itself, it is finally the relationship to the other and the instability of the relationships to the world that find their expression in Errance(s).
