Exhumer

Ghita Remy

From 15/11/2025 to 13/12/2025

Exhumer

Porter au regard les strates d’un passé incertain, faire remonter des récits transmis à demi-mots.

Des formes émergent : fragmentées, fossilisées, en devenir.

À la croisée du mythe et de la matière, l’exposition explore ce qui persiste, se transforme, se réincarne, se donne.

Entre fiction et vestige, elle esquisse une mémoire en mouvement où les corps, l’image, le plaisir et la parole trouvent de nouvelles voies d’apparition.

For her new exhibition at our venue, Ghita Remy invites us to reconnect with our distant origins.

Certain recurring images concerning the ambivalence of the feminine-masculine, the animal and the human have continued to haunt us since the dawn of time. Whether in mythical tales, phantasmagorical figures of dangerous women, or representations of the female body covered in fangs, thorns, or teeth, we are affected in our most hidden intimacy. Also summoned to a dance of species, the artist projects us into a down-to-earth animality.

Ghita Remy intertwines myths, fantasies, and archaic figures, bringing them to life organically in her drawings, engravings, ceramics, and porcelain. Fear and attraction mingle in a world that is not yet clearly differentiated or domesticated.

“I seek to recreate this fertile confusion where reality and imagination cross-pollinate.”

Recovering remains offered by archaeologists or engaging in new excavations in mythological narratives, Ghita Remy shares her version of the origin of life and death, with sexuality as the central theme.

Through her sculptures, the artist shows us how our imagination is inspired by nature and the terrible ambiguity of life and death that the mysterious cave brings to mind. The mouth with two or four lips is a passageway between the inside and the outside, between the known and the unknown, which can become a border and a demarcation zone.

For Ghita Remy, it all begins with the universal myth of the “vagina dentata,” that mysterious cavity belonging to the archaic woman. Ancient stories tell that at the dawn of humanity, during “time outside of time,” women possessed masculine attributes. In order to better distinguish the masculine from the feminine, it was necessary to remove certain dangerous protuberances and perform mutilations. Thus, for a very long time, the divisions between savage and civilized, nature and culture, feminine and masculine took place and became consolidated. But what about us today?

“In continuation of my research on the ‘vagina dentata’—a universal myth of fear and desire—I explore how objects embody these primordial narratives: fossil objects, fantasy objects, archetypal objects. I mold, I imprint, I duplicate. Forms change, symbols collide, images interpenetrate. A collective unconscious reveals itself through matter.

This work also engages in a dialogue with our technological present: when images are reproduced ad infinitum, when artificial intelligence draws on a primitive mental state, what becomes of our myths? What new bodies, what new fears, what new desires emerge? Eroticism, threat, attraction, repulsion: I probe the murky boundary where the object both invokes fantasy and devours it.

Because myth never dies. It constantly reinvents itself in our hands. Conducting an investigation that is at once archaeological, anthropological, and historical, embellished with a healthy dose of humor, Ghita Remy invites us to rediscover our human nature before the great upheavals. In those days, the animal, plant, and mineral worlds belonged to a cosmic whole that was one with the earth.