Cher Renzo Piano
Performance by Élise Courcol-Rozès
Saturday, October 10th, 2026, at 17 p.m.
MOD Studio, Friche la Belle de Mai, 41 rue Jobin 13003, Marseille
In “Dear Renzo Piano”, Élise Courcol-Rozès embodies a political figure, delivering the inauguration speech for the Paris Courthouse given by Édouard Philippe on April 1, 2019. While the clothing, body language and delivery evoke those of a political figure addressing the public, the speech and the reality it portrays are gradually brought into tension by a text projected onto the back wall of the stage, revealing data that is absent from—or glossed over in—the speech: waiting times between filing a complaint and going to trial, prison overcrowding.
Élise Courcol-Rozès is an associate artist at Triangle-Astérides in 2026.
In partnership with actoral
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Associated artist at Triangle-Astérides in 2026, Elise Courcol-Rozès lives and works in Marseille.
She holds degrees in comparative research in social sciences (EHESS) and visual arts (Ecole des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and Beaux-Arts de Paris). She questions the spatial organization of normative structures (such as schools, hospitals, and prisons) and invites us to take certain paths of diversion.
For several years, she has been pursuing artistic and ethnographic research on institutional justice and its alternatives. The model object allows her to reconstruct a series of conversations with people about their experiences of trials - witnesses, defendants, or victims. They discuss the distribution of speech in French courtrooms and the collision between two types of violence: intimate and institutional. Elise Courcol-Rozès is currently preparing an experimental film and a textual and spatial installation on this subject.
This project has already been supported by Artagon Marseille (2021-22), Mécènes du Sud (2023), and CAC Brétigny (2025). The artist also regularly works on setting up co-creation initiatives in different contexts, particularly in prisons.