Strangers in the night
Collective show with Emmanuelle Bentz and Christelle Familiari, Camille Henrot and Lina Jabbour, Patrick Martinez and Myriam Mechita
February 3 - March 4, 2006
Galerie de la Friche, Friche la Belle de Mai, 13003 Marseille
By bringing together works where machine-bodies, organic objects, house-worlds, and all kinds of undefined and undefinable creatures coexist, Strangers in the night offers a repertoire of hybrid forms—a journey through grafts and rejections that subtly assembles a universe both strange, poetic, and unreal.
The specter of hybridity leads us from Camille Henrot’s mutant films to Myriam Mechita’s baroque trophies, passing through Christelle Familiari’s videos, where half-human, half-monster creatures endlessly frolic in a ghostly and surreal realm.
A blurring of perception is also at play in L’alien by Patrik Martinez, a minimalist sculpture distorted through the play of mirrors, as well as in Emmanuelle Bentz’s video Wallparty, which simultaneously evokes laughter and unease.
As for Lina Jabbour’s drawings, they instill a sense of incongruity—a tension between multiple “bodies” from different worlds, a clash between the intimate and the urban, the organic and the static.
