She questions our relationship to body and space, inviting us to new sensory experiences that are both seductive and repulsive. The body becomes a medium. Between desire and empathy, forms and languages are revealed where it is difficult to bring an image or a word into being.While her works contain a strong sensory charge linked to identity and taboos, the history of bodies, both male and female, is here summoned in its latent and sexual, domestic, intimate and political relationship.

By revisiting the slow utopian trajectory of a culture in the process of turning away from the dominant models of patriarchy and heteronormativity, the libido, freed from all morality and without judgment, deposes those bodies embodying the authority of a society that monitors and locks up our bodies. By exposing the world under surveillance, she hijacks the aesthetic and political codes of power and domination, destabilizing our reference points. – Marianne Derrien

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