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Sculptural corpus activated through a performance, group show,

En des lieux sans merci

(2025) with Jean-François Boclé, Myriam Omar Awadi, Thierry Fontaine and Nathalie Muchamad (France)


These sculptural artifacts form a sanctuary—the scenography for *Dild'os Lament, Whiteness Shades Me*, the performance that closes the group exhibition En des lieux sans merci.

The visual artworks and the performance together evoke the memory of a fetishizing gaze directed at the body—one that assigns racialized people to hypersexualized or threatening positions.

Scepers depicting a Malagasy deity rest on thorns from Gleditsia triacanthos (American honey locust), carefully wrapped in ribbon. This gesture evokes the connections between Christianization, colonization, and the repression of desires and expressions of gender.







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