Inspired by everyday life and popular culture, Rick, the sixth backstreet boi’s exhibition present a set of multidisciplinary works comprising digital collages and a documentary video-performance. The artist take stock of the commonplaces that they have observed, explored, and contextualized in a queer and feminist frame of mind. According to their official agent, they uphold their art practice as a “vermicompost” in which they “reappropriate popular canons in order to create from the ruins of an egregore founded on exploitation and control.”

Cindy Dumais’s installational practice dwells on objects and literature. Taking the part of a collector, Dumais gathers small memos, strands of hair, snippets from authors in her notebooks, and constitutes them into the raw material from which she develops formal and conceptual dialogues. At the heart of the exhibition Garder le contact is a quote, transposed into the space, from author Clarice Lispector: “When I am utterly alone, I don’t exist. I exist only in dialogue.” This line traverses the body of works brought together by the connection “keeping in touch,” which Dumais developed during the pandemic. The works form correspondences among each other that are reproduced in large format and accompanied by assemblages of household objects, thus offering a spatial disposition of the literary world.