“The body is not a thing, it is a situation. It is our hold on the world, the outline of our projects,” wrote Simone de Beauvoir in 1949. Today, our bodies are physical, and our avatars are drawn in 3D. We have a gender and an envelope, increasingly malleable: the body is deconstructed, decolonized, it is racialized, fluid… Our identities are unstable, and therein lies their richness. These issues are becoming increasingly important with the arrival of motion capture technologies, real-time 3D, videogrammetry, body scanning…

Habeas Corpus, an exhibition made possible thanks to the support of L’Oréal, invites us to understand new ways of relating to others, to technology, to beauty, and to information, and proposes to explore the different facets of the beauty of the future, its grounding in the digital, and its presence in reality. Featuring previously unseen works by Inès Alpha, Romain Gauthier, Sam Madhu and Kami, the exhibition questions our systems of values ​​and representation, and reveals the space between desire and rejection of physical, social, and political bodies.

Artists

ines alpha

Romain Gauthier

Sam Madhu

Kami