WAYS TO

/finalfinalsession4 - 30.07.2026

- What Holds, an exclusive interactive and immersive installation made with L-corde -
- Some prints and glass experiments inspired by Léa Valet’s illustration work -
- A new version of the installation made in collaboration with Jana Kaulmann during WAYS TO/session1 -


Some things hold us without ever asking to be seen.
‍What Holds is an interactive and immersive installation that makes some of those invisible networks visible, felt and heard. It questions the idea of support as something given or received. 

This piece is an invitation to sharing weight, tension and energy.
Through a layered architecture, suspended chairs and a web of rope, it becomes an environment to enter rather than to observe.
Every action travels through the structure.
Sound, light and movement respond to the presence of each visitor, revealing a system in constant negotiation.

‍What Holds offers embodied encounters to shed light on the countless interdependent relationships that sustain life.It highlights the support as an experience continuously created between bodies, organisms, materials and time.What becomes visible may have been there all along.
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opening the 30.07

photo : Zohra Mrad

photo : L-Corde

On this first activation of the Casino Display during my residency, I had the chance to invite Jana Kaulmann for a collaboration , a filmed simultaneous tattoo performance, long talks and unlimited coffee. A lovely few days where we mapped out : WAYS TO transcend the violence of the world we live in - through the art of tattooing. It resulted in 2 main steps : tattooing each others legs simultaneously in front of the gallery's vitrine, recording every bit of it, then staging/installing the documentation of it on our main public event/activation the 28.04.2026.
On that opening, personal written notes for Jana's research was collected as well as endless discussions with different visitors.

Embracing the need to show work in progress and pushing meta references always a little further, the documentation of the performance was screened on latex gloves & the sound of the intimate tattoo session distorted live by the tattoo machine itself on a spring reverb. Installed in a way to honor the "too much cables laying around, too much gloves and plastic for a single tattoo, a machine too loud, drony, noisy to easily to communicate with someone else".
A nice bath of noise.

A special thank you to my collaborators :
L-Corde for this moving collaboration and deep connection,
Léa Valet for being such an inspiration and Jana Kaulmann for her support during WAYS TO/session1.
The warmest hug to Gabrielle Antar for her advice, her help and all the skills she is sharing with us to document this last event at Casino Display.

Thank you to Teena Lange, Alexandra Uppman & Soraya Meftah for assisting me/us.

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