LA CONSTELLATION DE MONSIEUR S

Group show curated by Andy Rankin
 
La constellation de Monsieur S is not an exhibition about ghosts or about death. Instead, it is shaped as a kaleidoscope of ineffable presences. It investigates what, in our time, is still operating without being fully named or acknowledged. It might be the delicate beauty of ruins, a nostalgic fondness for imaginary architectures, or the infinity of the cosmos, this contemporary terra incognita towards which so many faiths point their disembodied spirits. But there are also digital ghosts, those bodiless but not powerless avatars who haunt online networks and speeches, sometimes with perfidy. Or the silent deaths caused by the logic of late capitalism, and erased by it. The final room is devoted to rituals and the care of bodies, whether dead, alive or both at once, as extraneous bodies that cannot be explained despite the concerted efforts of the sciences.
 
La constellation de Monsieur S is a polyphony of silent voices, a maelstrom of past absences, a sedimentation of inconspicuous signs. This exhibition is as many possibilities for Monsieur S to exist, to manifest himself, or to be seen, on the condition that someone is willing to look for him. Ariane, the medium, was adamant: Monsieur S is not hostile. He becomes everything that resists explanation, everything that the eye avoids, everything that contemporary thought has relegated to the outskirts. In a time when uncertainty structures the zeitgeist, when the anxiety of fuzziness coexists with the obsession of proof, Monsieur S reminds us that there will always remain areas of opacity that no knowledge can compensate for.
 
It is not necessary to believe in ghosts to recognise the power of all that is beyond the reach of the mind. It’s sufficient to admit that certain presences are operative, disrupting and unsettling. The exhibition seeks neither to demonstrate nor to convince: it opens up a space for those who are willing to doubt, to seek without finding. Perhaps it is here, in this suspended attention, in this fertile discomfort, that Monsieur S will finally find a little distraction: by observing those who, in front of him, accept that they can no longer control everything.
 
Andy Rankin
 
With works by:
Louise Assouly
Ella Bergmann-Michel
Louise Belin
Nelson Bourrec Carter
Juana Bustamante
Jeanne Champenois-Masset
Aliki Christoforou
Roxane Daguet
Kenny Dunkan
Romeo Gómez López
Angeline Guzman
Sarah Juin
Luca Nuvolone
Nelson Pernisco
Prune Perris
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Florian Pugnaire
Louis-Cyprien Rials
Vivien Roubaud
Lola Roy-Cassayre
Justine Salamin
Dunya Savilova
Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya
tanz
Pierre Touré Cuq
Maxime Vignaud
Joseph Winckler
 
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// La constellation de Monsieur S (03/09-01/11/2025 | Bruxelles