Night Has Broken Refinement
Longtermhandstand•May 30, 2025 — Jul 27, 2025
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Julie Béna’s solo exhibition Night Has Broken Refinement at Longtermhandstand opens a liminal space, between the personal and the performative, the poetic and the political, the real and the imagined. It is a moment suspended in time, standing on the threshold of her forthcoming major survey at Le Magasin, Grenoble, and gathering works made between 2017 and 2025 into a vivid constellation of material and conceptual exploration. Béna’s practice operates as a gate between fiction and reality, where aesthetic languages; often humorous, surreal, and disarmingly intimate, are wielded as tools of critical reflection. Here, she assembles a chorus of media: fragile lace embroideries, black steel sculptures, intricate installations, drawings, and films. Each piece suggests a narrative fragment, a portal, or a persona—together composing a world that is both finely detailed and ideologically sharp. A central anchor of the exhibition is her seminal film Strakati, a deeply personal work that...More
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Night Has Broken Refinement
Longtermhandstand•May 30, 2025 — Jul 27, 2025
Press Release
Julie Béna’s solo exhibition Night Has Broken Refinement at Longtermhandstand opens a liminal space, between the personal and the performative, the poetic and the political, the real and the imagined. It is a moment suspended in time, standing on the threshold of her forthcoming major survey at Le Magasin, Grenoble, and gathering works made between 2017 and 2025 into a vivid constellation of material and conceptual exploration. Béna’s practice operates as a gate between fiction and reality, where aesthetic languages; often humorous, surreal, and disarmingly intimate, are wielded as tools of critical reflection. Here, she assembles a chorus of media: fragile lace embroideries, black steel sculptures, intricate installations, drawings, and films. Each piece suggests a narrative fragment, a portal, or a persona—together composing a world that is both finely detailed and ideologically sharp. A central anchor of the exhibition is her seminal film Strakati, a deeply personal work that...More
