« Je suis le rythme de leurs pupilles »

« Je suis le rythme de leurs pupilles » (I follow the rhythm of their gaze), affirms a shared attention — a common pulse in a context full of contradictions. Here, the works weave themselves into the interstices of what passes through us: collective struggles, fragmented inheritances, gestures of care and rupture.

Jo·hana Blanc presents a sound piece embedded in enveloping cushion-sculptures. To hear it, one must dive in, bury one’s head. This intimate gesture grants access to a montage of personal texts and interviews with comrades from the collective Urgence Palestine 20eme (UP20), that reflect what strengthens and erodes an activist group that must navigate doubts and political disagreement while situated inside a much larger political divide.

cassiane c. pfund explores the layers and connections between what composes our bodies and our systems: resource extraction, colonial legacies, and consumption patterns in the West. Starting from language, they explore tensions inscribed in everyday gestures — between assimilation, erasure, and (re)construction of identity. Their work maps buried narratives and invites us to listen to the frictions that persist, even in silence.

The exhibition is accompanied by the text What about the future? by Nesrine Salem, from which the exhibition title is drawn, that challenges the obsession of certain art professionals with seeking “the imaginary” in the work of the artist. Through the nightly Taraweeh prayer, practiced during the month of Ramadan, Nesrine Salem shares her experience of the collective in a mosque.

Jo·hana Blanc is an artist, writer, and activist. His engagement with text is both personal and collective, approached through fiction, interviews, and performance. Tackling themes such as artistic ambition, love, and disappearance, Jo Blanc questions who is being addressed, and who is being given a voice, when words are used in public and artistic contexts.

cassiane c. pfund is an artist and writer. Experimental, hybrid, and poetic—rooted in text and unfolding through a variety of forms–, their work explores spaces of coexistence, intimacy, transmission, and dialogue.

The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Nesrine Salem.