This project stems from the desire to combine two practices that involve the concept of “terrain”. Whether we use the word in reference to sculptural space
or to photographic reportage, both are indications of a full engagement with the reality of a given space. This exposition is animated by question, “What does ‘inhabitance’ mean?”

Anne-Lise Seusse proposes a series of images taken on l’Esplanade du Dauphine, in Lyon’s downtown core. This series attempts to present the way in which the transitory nature of the circus redefines territory through its residual objects (empty grounds, garbage transformed into shacks…) but also in the
visual confrontation between circus costumes and the ornamentation of the surrounding architecture.

Zoe Benoit offers a construction conceived for the primary space of the gallery: Dibond plaques suspended from the ceiling, floating weightlessly and sectioning off the total space into new “rooms,” new portals. The corresponding negative of this undertaking of spatial reallocation is found in the next room, with a series of “boxes” that, while individual, act collectively as an irregular surface, redrawing the ground into a set of visually discontinuous steps.