Participation of lebanese artists Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige

In the British TV series The Invisible Man (1958), physicist Peter Brady becomes accidentally invisible after a scientific experiment goes wrong. Forced to bandage his face to appear visible to others, he nevertheless chooses to turn this disappearance into a force for action. Less visible but just as effective, he adopts a discreet, underground form of intervention — detached from spectacle, yet impactful.

This exhibition draws on the idea of presence through absence, resonating with the concept of fugitivity as developed by poet and thinker Fred Moten. For Moten, fugitivity is not withdrawal but a refusal to be captured by dominant norms. The fugitive invents collective, improvised forms of life from the margins, resisting without revealing themselves. To be invisible is sometimes to survive differently — to create from the shadows, to care from the periphery.

The forms of invisibility explored here are social, political, and ecological. They affect a large majority of the global population, pushed to the margins of society and into the background of representation due to gender, origin, social status, health, age, among other factors.

These forced invisibilities often lead to isolation and, at times, even to hostility toward others. Yet we must not forget that it is not difference itself that fuels the tensions of contemporary society, but the diffuse violence of a political and economic system that weakens solidarity, instrumentalizes diversity, and pits people against one another in order to maintain inequality.

The exhibition explores these imposed disappearances — of bodies, voices, territories — and highlights what endures at the margins: discreet gestures, fragmentary presences, silenced narratives. Perhaps these are other ways of living in the world.

ARTISTS

Zoé Aubry
Lounis Baouche
Denis Briand
AA Bronson
Mohamed Bourouissa
Tania Candiani
Carolina Caycedo
Scarlett Coten
Julien Creuzet
Roland Fischer
Hreinn Fridfinnsson
Estelle Hanania

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Jacob Holdt
Sharon Kivland
Latifa Laâbissi
Letizia Le Fur
Hervé Le Nost
Mehryl Levisse
Anna López Luna & Mounir Gouri
Maha Maamoun
Basir Mahmood

Jingban Hao
Barbara McCullough
Julieth Morales
Benoit Piéron
Sequoia Scavullo
Marion Scemama & David Wojnarowicz
Ahlam Shibli
Malick Sidibé
Maryam Tafakory
The School of Mutants
Yves Trémorin