Installations, Still and Moving images - Grand Garage Haussmann

Conversations
OFFSCREEN hosted conversations bringing together leading figures from the world of culture to discuss themes related to still and moving images.

Artforum Atelier discussing Shigeko Kubota’s legacy, moderated by Artforum Editor in Chief, Tina Rivers Ryan, with:
— Jordan Carter, Curator & Co-Department Head at Dia Art Foundation
— Erica Papernik-Shimizu, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance at MOMA
— Margit Rosen, Head of Collections, Archives & Research, ZKM | Center for Art and Media

Artist Talk x Madame Figaro | October 22, 2025

Madame Figaro Deputy Editor-in-Chief Joseph Ghosn is in conversation with South African artist Sue Williamson about her practice, memory, and the enduring legacies that shape her work.

Screening and Discussion on Nam June Paik | October 22, 2025

Robyn Farrell, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Kitchen in New York presents her research on Nam June Paik’s Good Morning, Mr. Orwell (1984), followed by a discussion with Linus Gratte, Curator of Performance and Programs at the Centre Pompidou.

Artist Talk x Mousse Magazine | October 23, 2025

Barbara Casavecchia, Editor-in-Chief of Mousse Magazine, is in conversation with artist Maria Stamenković Herranz about her seven-day durational performance This Mortal House Building 3.

JBE Editions | Book Launch | October 23, 2025

Pierre Leguillon (artist) Jonathan Pouthier (Associate Curator at Centre-Pompidou), and Roch Deniau (graphic designer) revisit Do You Know Michael Snow?, a 1978 radio collaboration between Michael Snow and Daniel Caux for Radio France’s Atelier de Création Radiophonique.

Artist Talk x Kunstverein Hannover | October 24, 2025

Director of Kunstverein Hannover Christoph Platz-Gallus in conversation with OFFSCREEN artist Yarema Malashchuk about You Shouldn’t Have to See This (2024).

Folie Douce | Live Podcast Recording | October 25, 2025

Journalist and author Lauren Bastide recorded a live episode of her podcast Folie Douce at the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière in conversation with documentary podcast maker Pauline Chanu.

Written on the Screen | October 25, 2025

Enrico Camporesi, Head of Research at the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou film collection, presents Read Frame Type Film (MUBI Editions, 2025).

Performances
This 4th OFFSCREEN edition featured two singular live performances inside the monumental Chapelle.

This Mortal House Building 3 by Maria Stamenković Herranz

Maria Stamenković Herranz, This Mortal House Building 1 (2020), Photos by Korhan Karaoysal.

For seven days, eight hours each day, La Chapelle became the stage for “This Mortal House Building 3”, an intense durational performance by Maria Stamenković Herranz. Over six days, eight hours each day, the performance enacts the gradual construction of a spiral using 1440 uncooked bricks while blindfolded. The spiral, governed by the Fibonacci sequence, symbolizes the natural order, beauty, and harmony of the world. It represents journeys inward toward one’s core or outward into expanded consciousness. The work builds throughout the week, climaxing in its dramatic destruction on the last day of OFFSCREEN.

Tono x OFFSCREEN | October 24, 2025

OFFSCREEN Paris and TONO organized a special evening in the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière. Guatemalan-born, Mexico City-based cellist and experimental musician Mabe Fratti and acclaimed British cellist, composer, and curator Lucy Railton will present a collaborative live show. This special concert marks their first joint presentation in Europe, following a first encounter organized by TONO in Mexico City.

Dr. Charcot
In connection with the history of La Salpêtrière Hospital, OFFSCREEN unveiled a rare selection of photographic prints from a collection of 47 plates produced by Albert Londe in 1893 during Dr. Charcot’s sessions.

Albert Londe 1893. Courtesy Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Clairefontaine.

Created in 1882, the Salpêtrière Photographic Service was a pioneer in the use of medical photography, capturing the fleeting symptoms of hysteria, epilepsy and states of crisis with unprecedented precision. The photographs on display, at the crossroads of art, science and power, also bear witness to a controversial staging, Jean-Martin Charcot’s famous ‘Tuesday lectures’ having been described as « veritable spectacles ».
Beyond their documentary function, his photographs are marked by a strong theatricality, with patients often staged as is evident in the presence of the beds, backdrops, and doctors watching on. Georges Didi-Huberman theorized the theatricality of these images in his seminal 1982 work The Invention of Hysteria

Albert Londe 1893. Courtesy Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Clairefontaine.