Richard Foreman

Bouchra Khalili is the visual arts guest at the 2025 edition of the Festival d'Automne. Born in 1975 in Casablanca, she lives in Vienna, Austria and works in an itinerant manner. For more than twenty years, she has been producing rigorously conceived works that function as visual and discursive hypotheses, and which take into account the contemporary issues of art and the world. Her work seeks to overturn geographies, narratives and official histories in order to restore depth and precision to reality and its protagonists. Bringing together recent works and new productions, her project entitled Astérismes (Fig. 1 à 3) takes to three theatre stages its exploration of the links between the representation of long-lost stories, performance art and moving images.

Fleeing to her country, where her father and fiancée await her, a female soldier crosses paths with the devil. Gaëlle Bourges reworks the drama by Stravinsky and Ramuz in a solo with two dolls, set to an electro-disco original soundtrack. In a tactful way, La petite soldate poses questions to people of all ages about the place of art in our lives, the impact of war, our relationship to ethics and happiness.
 

 
What are the new politics of love? What is the extent of transgression and politics that the act of love necessarily involves? Following on from Absalon, Absalon!, this new piece by Séverine Chavrier, entitled Occupations, or “formerly”, looks into intimacy and female desire.