Du Balooning, en attendant le bal
Café des Glaces•Jul 05, 2025 — Oct 04, 2025
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*Hollywood Baby, Alone by Mathilde Ganancia
Act I of an acid flash opera
Text by Géraldine Gourbe*
I hate the Tee-shirt
But I love the songs
And the music is liquid.[1]
It’s sticky, it’s hot. It seeps, it drips. We’re dripping, unraveling. The umpteenth story of a heatwave more real than dystopian—or dystopically real? The return of our overheated bodies, topped by our minds numbed by a tragically cartoonish news cycle? Absolutely not. Behind every reflection in Mathilde Ganancia’s exhibition at Café des Glaces, behind each droplet of condensation, one catches sight of old skins. Wrinkled skins pulled taut by a facelift or plumped up by a peeling… skins that once belonged to former stars. An expression, seemingly “modest,” that conceals a terrible violence and isolation, stemming from an essentializing form of...More
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Du Balooning, en attendant le bal
Café des Glaces•Jul 05, 2025 — Oct 04, 2025
Press Release
*Hollywood Baby, Alone by Mathilde Ganancia
Act I of an acid flash opera
Text by Géraldine Gourbe*
I hate the Tee-shirt
But I love the songs
And the music is liquid.[1]
It’s sticky, it’s hot. It seeps, it drips. We’re dripping, unraveling. The umpteenth story of a heatwave more real than dystopian—or dystopically real? The return of our overheated bodies, topped by our minds numbed by a tragically cartoonish news cycle? Absolutely not. Behind every reflection in Mathilde Ganancia’s exhibition at Café des Glaces, behind each droplet of condensation, one catches sight of old skins. Wrinkled skins pulled taut by a facelift or plumped up by a peeling… skins that once belonged to former stars. An expression, seemingly “modest,” that conceals a terrible violence and isolation, stemming from an essentializing form of...More
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