Bernard Sobel

Athens, Marseilles, Marrakesh, Paris; Isavella, Giannis, Elias, Philippe, Mustapha, Smaïne, Hedi, Mia, Lucas; Al Assifa, Al Halaka, Djellali Kamal, Mririda n’Aït Attik; today and yesterday, from the 1970s to the 2020s: Bouchra Khalili brings together all these places, experiences, voices, and moments in her multi-site, multidisciplinary project entitled Astérismes (Fig. 1 to 3).
 

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.