"The back of the gallery is a bit scary. I lean over to look at the strange work of the suspended
machinery : a basin covered in dust, pipes going nowhere, and eternal Christmas decorations.
I navigate my way here, under the mirrored ceiling. I think of Marnie and Denis talking to the manager, trapped in the jewelry store’s airlock.

Here is really nowhere; it’s like a hallway consumed to the bone and imagined dissolved in neon light. In fact, I believe in the spectral life of non-place, it is this space we would see appear if we attacked it with acetone.  A representation too commercial of reality : a elsewhere behind elsewhere, my resilience hub.

The shopkeepers gave us a surprised welcome before opening the dark storefronts that looked like construction sites. So I noted: do not betray the idea of a construction site, nor that of a ghost.

The light does not turn on in this one. If I stay still, it’s as if my body dissolves: that’s how ghosts are made.
A presence is forgotten, reduced to debris. Those who will walk after me will simply be colder than in the rest of the city.

A kingdom of canceled commercial areas, jungles of solvents and dust - I am here, a little bit, with all the businesses that could have been set up. I am on my knees like a cyborg, I no longer know where I begin."


We invite you to This is Nowhere, and it’s Forever, less of an exhibition and more of a construction site, a moment of presence, work, and encounters over 7 days, held in an abandoned store of Galerie Louise, in the presence of invited artists, neighboring shopkeepers, and visitors. The aim is to invest in a timeless space, haunted by the persistence of contrary specters of its dilapidation and potential activations.
This moment of creation and conviviality is an opportunity to question the phantasmagorical voids, the strange reminiscences that can manifest in these non-places produced in series by late capitalism.