Félixe Kazi-Tani (artist-researcher) and H·Alix Sanyas (artist, graphic designer, and filmmaker) have joined the Foundation to develop the project Lamentatio. Their work seeks to deepen our understanding of the political, social, and symbolic stakes of a culture that commodifies the life and death of certain bodies.
Starting from the word “charnier” — both a container used to preserve meat and a site where numerous corpses are amassed — H·Alix and Félixe are developing a series of glass sculptures influenced by the art of the table.
Drawing its forms from a repertoire that spans vernacular pottery from the Saintonge region to funerary objects, and through a queer reinterpretation of Bernard Palissy, Lamentatio is conceived as a weaving of narratives of fragmented, declassed bodies, reduced to flesh, blood, and secretions: stories of bodies fighting to be counted, stories of ghostly existences that haunt and compel us.