Conceived as an area for transmission and confrontation of experiences, this exhibition brings collectively a dozen worldwide artists who query prevailing narratives in our modern societies and our connection to actuality.
In a context marked by main social and political upheavals, “Nothing however the Reality” highlights the function of fiction as a device of resistance and a way of deciphering actuality. The artists featured deploy narrative methods that problem dominant discourses and supply new views on modern realities via numerous movies, installations, images, sculptures, and texts.
“Nothing however the Reality” reveals recurring inventive mechanisms, notably the usage of discomfort and uncertainty as storytelling instruments. By exploring the violence of constructed areas—whether or not architectural, historic, institutional, or memorial—the artists summon unsettling fictions that disrupt, query, and overturn the established order.
Place to begin of the exhibition, the video works of Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (ça va, ça va, on proceed; Secteur IX B), Ghita Skali (The Gap Journey; The Invaders), and Bahar Noorizadeh (After Shortage; The Pink Metropolis of the Planet of Capitalism) mix political fable, essay, and experimental fiction.
On the similar time, all three artists develop practices that exist exterior, inside, or alongside the sector of artwork, participating in a dynamic of data transmission and collective development. The exhibition has thus been constructed round their works and conversations held with curator Flora Fettah, with the intention of linking analysis topics and dealing strategies.
This dialogue can be enriched by the works of invited artists, in addition to by the contribution of Mercedes Azpilicueta, who co-conceives the house and public reception via her palimpsest work Potatoes, Riots and Different Imaginaries. It’s also accompanied by the group of a free month-to-month occasion inside the KADIST house, in addition to an editorial collaboration between the Asameena collective and the Palais de Tokyo.
at Kadist, Paris
till July 12, 2025
