Galerie Heckel, Cavaillon
La Non-Maison, Centre d’art, Aix en Provence
Curator: Chen Ben Shitrit Lejuste
Photography: Malina Gauthier, Chen Ben Shitrit Lejuste
Solo exhibition
“Akos” means “remedy, care” in ancient Greek.
The exhibition seeks to shed light on the unbearable gap between sovereignty over one’s own life and the imposed powerlessness experienced by women -particularly in contexts of war or violence, though not exclusively. Conceived around a selection of major works created over the past decade, AKOS reveals for the first time in France a body of work that explores the fragility of the body, repair, and the power of compassion as a political act. The exhibition is an invitation to oppose and to reclaim agency against violence and oppression.
It asks a simple yet urgent question: what can be done? what can I do?
The sculptures embody the artist`s refusal to ignore pain and her activist stand: however futile it may seem, a response can always set change in motion.
As a first gesture, the exhibition proposes not to look away from human suffering- whatever its form – and to cultivate a practice of compassionate attention.
It invites visitors to enter zones of tension: between power and vulnerability, between intimate memory and collective memory.
Chen Ben Shitrit Lejuste
