“Heaven is a place on earth with you” is a group exhibition co-produced with @lefessestival from 4.09 - 12.10

Featuring @jonasssvan @junnno.b @nagigianninnaigigan @xenialucielaffely

Overcoming incantations, “Climbing a Dive” by Nagi Gianni explores a dynamic of tension and suspension by anchoring molded parts of her body to masts attached to the building. Transposing the internal tensions of a being’s evolving identity, her work captures the body’s impulse to break free from its posture. The body moves forward to explore, driven by the gravitational pull of the outside world. Her perched and diving limbs cling to the poles, rising and falling to find their balance in the wind.

The new being searches across the expanse for a name to match its image. A river of sounds flows across the concrete floor beneath its feet—wingbeats, soft winds, and delicate bones rustling in the foliage of nearby trees. Bird songs inspire a soul within. Yet, in attempting to mimic them, the raw voice emerging from its own throat is terrifying and out of place.

Could this world belong to them?

On the threshold of the outside world, Xénia Lucie Laffely envisions a nightmarish dream in a banner suspended above the door. The fleeting vision depicted in her work “Pigeon Fish” is drawn from a flesh-colored world, subjected to inter-species relationships—the translucent mesh of a reality shared by human lovers, pigeons haunting balconies, and fish lurking in aquatic shelters. Their bodies intertwine, their stitched and drained faces merge with the fabric, revealing new possibilities of assembly and fusion in a hybrid future.

“Heaven is a place on earth with you” calls for the desire to belong, to reach out, and to form composite beings that transform their environment. As their tissues crush and tear apart, their identities multiply.

Text by @laura.vdtas