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Thank you to everyone who joined us this past weekend to wander and learn in the mystical Fontainebleau Forest.

We felt the effects of the summer’s heatwaves, and as parts of the forest recovers from the recent fires, we were reminded of how constantly is changes and the role fungi play in these processes.

Hoping to make it back very soon for those who couldn’t make it this time.

Follow @systemsofmatter for more wonderful events!

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🔵 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 | 𝟭𝟳.𝟬𝟵.𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🔵
#revue02 #113 #summer #2025

🔵 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 : 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘁
« Best Before : », exposition personnelle de Valentin Vert. Curatée par Indira Béraud. Présentée à l'Institut Français de Berlin jusqu'au 11 janvier 2026 dans le cadre du cycle Les Vitrines 2025 soutenu par le @bureaudesartsvisuels.

Best Before : explore la notion de conservation : des données, enfermées dans des architectures énergivores ; des œuvres d’art, soumises à des protocoles stricts ; et du vivant, animal comme humain. L'exposition rassemble une série de sculptures dont les formes s'inspirent des carottes géologiques. Contenant du mercure, ces structures ambivalentes fonctionnent à la fois comme des instruments de mesure et des dispositifs d'archivage, où se croisent tensions écologiques et récits symboliques. Les œuvres dialoguent avec des images d'archives librement retravaillées : de l'extraction du cinabre aux pigments de Cézanne, de l'excès industriel aux eaux empoisonnées de Minamata. À travers ce maillage temporel et narratif stratifié, l'exposition questionne notre capacité à coexister avec les résidus toxiques du monde contemporain et soulève implicitement la question de notre propre date d'expiration écologique.

Valentin Vert vit et travaille à Marseille. Sa pratique, à la croisée de la sculpture, du design industriel et de l’artisanat, s’ancre dans une lecture historique, sociale et politique des gestes techniques. Les formes qui en résultent façonnent des récits spéculatifs : artefacts animés porteurs de mémoires enfouies, témoins de futurs déçus ou de fictions possibles. En 2023, il a reçu le Prix François Bret. Son travail a récemment été présenté à Art-o-rama à Marseille, au Château de Servières à Marseille, à la Villa Benkemoun à Arles, au Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles à Paris, ainsi qu’à La Villette pour 100% l’Expo à Paris.

Photo : @luca_girardini_photography
Exposition réalisée avec le soutien du Fonds Carta
Les Vitrines est un projet curatorial issu du programme « Jeunes commissaires » soutenu par le Ministère français de la Culture.

@valvert_ @indiberaud @ifkudamm @bureaudesartsvisuels

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[BEST BEFORE: — LES VITRINES 2025]

« 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞: », a solo exhibition by Valentin Vert @valvert_ , and curated by @indiberaud, is on view at the french institute Berlin @ifkudamm until January 11, 2026.

Best Before: explores the challenges of preservation - of data, artworks, and life itself. It brings together a series of sculptures whose vertical forms are inspired by geological core samples. Containing mercury, these ambivalent structures function both as measuring instruments and archival devices, where ecological tensions and symbolic narratives intersect. The works engage in dialogue with freely reworked archival images: from cinnabar mining to Cézanne’s pigments, from industrial excess to the poisoned waters of Minamata. Through this layered temporal and narrative mesh, the exhibition questions our ability to coexist with the toxic residues of the contemporary world - and implicitly raises the question of our own ecological expiration date.

👉 Valentin Vert (b. 1996) lives and works in Marseille. His practice, at the intersection of sculpture, industrial design, and craftsmanship, is grounded in a historical, social, and political reading of technical gestures. The resulting forms shape speculative narratives: animated artefacts bearing buried memories, witnesses to disappointed futures or still possible fictions. In 2023, he was awarded the François Bret Prize. His work has recently been presented at Art-o-rama in Marseille, Château de Servières in Marseille, Villa Benkemoun in Arles, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris, and La Villette for 100% l’Expo.

Photography by Luca Girardini @luca_girardini_photography

Exhibition produced with the support of the Carta Fund (https://www.fonds-carta.com/).
Les Vitrines is a curatorial project from the “Jeunes commissaires programme” supported by the French ministry of Culture.

@bureaudesartsvisuels

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[ LES VITRINES 2025 — BEST BEFORE:]

« 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞: », a solo exhibition by Valentin Vert @valvert_ , and curated by @indiberaud, is on view at the french institute Berlin @ifkudamm until January 11, 2026.

Best Before: explores the challenges of preservation—of data, artworks, and life itself. It brings together a series of sculptures whose vertical forms are inspired by geological core samples. Containing mercury, these ambivalent structures function both as measuring instruments and archival devices, where ecological tensions and symbolic narratives intersect. The works engage in dialogue with freely reworked archival images: from cinnabar mining to Cézanne’s pigments, from industrial excess to the poisoned waters of Minamata. Through this layered temporal and narrative mesh, the exhibition questions our ability to coexist with the toxic residues of the contemporary world—and implicitly raises the question of our own ecological expiration date.

👉 Valentin Vert (b. 1996) lives and works in Marseille. His practice, at the intersection of sculpture, industrial design, and craftsmanship, is grounded in a historical, social, and political reading of technical gestures. The resulting forms shape speculative narratives: animated artefacts bearing buried memories, witnesses to disappointed futures or still possible fictions. In 2023, he was awarded the François Bret Prize. His work has recently been presented at Art-o-rama in Marseille, Château de Servières in Marseille, Villa Benkemoun in Arles, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris, and La Villette for 100% l’Expo.

Photography by Luca Girardini @luca_girardini_photography

Exhibition produced with the support of the Carta Fund (https://www.fonds-carta.com/).
Les Vitrines is a curatorial project from the “Jeunes commissaires programme” supported by the French ministry of Culture.

@bureaudesartsvisuels

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[LES VITRINES 2025 - OPENING]

📆Opening June 27th – 6 pm at Institut français Berlin @ifkudamm
Best Before:, a solo exhibition by Valentin Vert @valvert_ , is the second chapter in the Les Vitrines 2025 cycle curated by Indira Béraud @indiberaud.

Best Before: explores the challenges of preservation—of data, artworks, and life itself. It brings together a series of sculptures whose vertical forms are inspired by geological core samples. Containing mercury, these ambivalent structures function both as measuring instruments and archival devices, where ecological tensions and symbolic narratives intersect. The works engage in dialogue with freely reworked archival images: from cinnabar mining to Cézanne’s pigments, from industrial excess to the poisoned waters of Minamata. Through this layered temporal and narrative mesh, the exhibition questions our ability to coexist with the toxic residues of the contemporary world—and implicitly raises the question of our own ecological expiration date.

👉 Valentin Vert (b. 1996) lives and works in Marseille. His practice, at the intersection of sculpture, industrial design, and craftsmanship, is grounded in a historical, social, and political reading of technical gestures. The resulting forms shape speculative narratives: animated artefacts bearing buried memories, witnesses to disappointed futures or still possible fictions. In 2023, he was awarded the François Bret Prize. His work has recently been presented at Art-o-rama in Marseille, Château de Servières in Marseille, Villa Benkemoun in Arles, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris, and La Villette for 100% l’Expo.

Exhibition produced with the support of the Carta Fund (https://www.fonds-carta.com/).

@bureaudesartsvisuels

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If you’re in Berlin for Gallery weekend, make sure to visit Isabella Benshimol Toro’s institutional solo ‘The Phantom of Liberty’, currently on display in the vitrines of The French Institute Berlin @ifkudamm, curated by @indiberaud.

Titled after Luis Buñuel’s 1974 surrealist film, the show explores the tension between private and public spheres. Set in a cross-section of a typical apartment on Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm, Benshimol Toro transforms the space into a tableau where ordinary actions unfold like scenes in a film. The exhibition reveals the absurdities of authority and conventions, exposing raw transparency and making intimacy more political than ever. The show remains on view until 22 June.

Photography by Luca Girardini

@bureaudesartsvisuels

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[THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY – LES VITRINES 2025]

« The Phantom of Liberty », a solo show by @isabella.benshimol and curated by @indiberaud, is on view at the french institute Berlin @ifkudamm until June 20.

„Her solo exhibition, titled after Luis Buñuel’s 1974 surrealist film, explores the tension between private and public spheres. Set in a cross-section of a typical apartment on Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm, Benshimol Toro transforms the space into a tableau where ordinary actions unfold like scenes in a film. The exhibition reveals the absurdities of authority and conventions, exposing raw transparency and making intimacy more political than ever.“

Photography by Luca Girardini @luca_girardini_photography

@bureaudesartsvisuels

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« The Phantom of Liberty », Isabella Benshimol Toro’ solo exhibition, is on view at @ifkudamm , Berlin, until June 20, 2025.
Curator: Indira Béraud @indiberaud

“Benshimol Toro transforms the space into a tableau of a domestic interior where fossils of ordinary actions become images that unfold as in a film. Exacerbating the tension between private and public spheres, the exhibition is set in motion under voyeuristic gazes, while authority and conventions are laid bare, revealing their absurdities. Absent walls and suggested spaces expose a raw transparency, where power relations come to the fore and intimacy is more political than ever.”

Photography by Luca Girardini @luca_girardini_photography

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« The Phantom of Liberty », Isabella Benshimol Toro’ solo exhibition, is on view at @ifkudamm , Berlin, until June 20, 2025. Curator: Indira Béraud @indiberaud

Photography by Luca Girardini @luca_girardini_photography

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Installation views from « The Phantom of Liberty », the last solo show of artist Isabella Benshimol Toro— on view at @ifkudamm , Berlin, until June 20, 2025. Curated by Indira Béraud, the exhibition takes its title from Luis Buñuel’s 1974 surrealist film, which subversively deconstructs, with irony and provocation, the social and moral norms that govern society. Overlooking Kurfürstendamm, the cross-section of an apparently typical apartment—featuring a bedroom, a bathroom, a hallway, an entrance, and an office—becomes the stage for a tension between private and public spheres.

The site-specific installation, composed of a selection of sculptures and photographs, incorporates fragments of everyday life. Created from architectural elements, furniture, lingerie, worn clothing, and various textiles set in epoxy resin or silicone, these pieces inhabit the space with a spectral presence. Each one seems to bear the memory, the fluids, or the forms of an absent body, revealing an implicit narrative, petrified in time..

Benshimol Toro transforms Les Vitrines into a tableau of a domestic interior, where fossils or monuments of banal gestures take the form of fixed images. These unfold like a film strip that comes to life with the rhythm of passing footsteps. By intensifying the boundary between what must be shown or concealed, the exhibition is activated under the voyeuristic gaze of pedestrians, while authority and conventions, laid bare, reveal their intrinsic absurdity. The absent walls and suggested spaces create a raw transparency, where power dynamics become visible, and intimacy appears more political than ever.

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« The Phantom of Liberty », Isabella Benshimol Toro’ solo exhibition, is on view at @ifkudamm , Berlin, until June 20, 2025.
Curator: Indira Béraud @indiberaud

“Benshimol Toro transforms the space into a tableau of a domestic interior where fossils of ordinary actions become images that unfold as in a film. Exacerbating the tension between private and public spheres, the exhibition is set in motion under voyeuristic gazes, while authority and conventions are laid bare, revealing their absurdities. Absent walls and suggested spaces expose a raw transparency, where power relations come to the fore and intimacy is more political than ever.”

Photography by Luca Girardini @luca_girardini_photography
Special thanks to Sophie Coumel, Oriane Durant, Marie Praun, Arthur Roy and Alix Weidner

For full documentation on institutfrancais.de or isabellabenshimol.com

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[LES VITRINES 2025 - OPENING]

📆Opening February 13th - 7pm at Institut français Berlin @ifkudamm

The first exhibition in the Les Vitrines 2025 cycle, curated by @indiberaud , features a solo show by @isabella.benshimol. Her solo exhibition, „The Phantom of Liberty“, takes its title from Luis Buñuel’s 1974 surrealist film, which subversively deconstructs, with irony and provocation, the social and moral norms that govern society. Open to Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm historic avenue, the cross-section of a seemingly typical apartment -comprising a bedroom, a bathroom, a hallway, an entrance, and a dining room- becomes the stage for tension between private and public spheres.

🏠This site-specific installation, composed of sculptures and photographs, incorporates fragments of everyday life. Crafted from architectural elements, furniture, lingerie, worn clothing, and various textiles preserved in epoxy resin or silicone, these pieces imbue the space with a spectral presence. Each seems to carry the memory, fluids, or forms of an absent body, revealing a hollow-out narrative, petrified in time.

👉Isabella Benshimol Toro (1994) is a Caracas-born, London-based artist. Her work draws from the need to freeze in time actions, gestures and ephemeral sensations of everyday domestic life. Her intention is to provide space for critical reflection on notions of intimacy, domesticity, power, and value.
Isabella Benshimol received her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2020.

📸Isabella Benshimol Toro
Soft serve lob, 2022
Used silk pants, epoxy resin
28.5 x 24 x 4.5 cm

#contemporaryart #institutfrançais #ifkudamm #frenchcurators #womanartist #jeunescommissaires

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