Above, Below, Between
CALM - Centre d'Art La Meute•Feb 05, 2026 — Mar 01, 2026
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A proposal by Oriane Emery & Jean-Rodolphe Petter
Above, Below, Between is structured around the sphere as a relational environment. An intimate, invisible space that we construct daily in response to what surrounds us. The sphere is not understood here as a stable refuge, but as a milieu traversed by narratives, images, objects, and norms that orient us as much as we attempt to orient ourselves within them.
This approach is grounded in the thinking of Sara Ahmed (Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others), for whom orientation does not refer simply to movement through space, but to the ways bodies react to and metabolize the situations they encounter in their everyday environments. Ahmed’s work invites us to contextualize the question of orientation through an intersectional lens. To be oriented is to know what we turn toward : what attracts us, what reassures us, what puts us under tension, or what generates fear. The spaces we inhabit, particularly domestic space, organize…
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Above, Below, Between
CALM - Centre d'Art La Meute•Feb 05, 2026 — Mar 01, 2026
Press Release
A proposal by Oriane Emery & Jean-Rodolphe Petter
Above, Below, Between is structured around the sphere as a relational environment. An intimate, invisible space that we construct daily in response to what surrounds us. The sphere is not understood here as a stable refuge, but as a milieu traversed by narratives, images, objects, and norms that orient us as much as we attempt to orient ourselves within them.
This approach is grounded in the thinking of Sara Ahmed (Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others), for whom orientation does not refer simply to movement through space, but to the ways bodies react to and metabolize the situations they encounter in their everyday environments. Ahmed’s work invites us to contextualize the question of orientation through an intersectional lens. To be oriented is to know what we turn toward : what attracts us, what reassures us, what puts us under tension, or what generates fear. The spaces we inhabit, particularly domestic space, organize…


































































