Normes Corps

This is not one single exhibition or one single medium. Normes Corps is a season built around bodies that disturb the idea of “normal”: vulnerable bodies, disabled bodies, ageing bodies, queer bodies, sick bodies, non-conforming bodies — and the systems that try to define them. The Palais de Tokyo frames the season around vulnerability and difference as creative strength rather than lack.

Normes Corps brings together eight exhibitions that ask how art can transform the way we understand bodies, care, access, power and representation.

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• Pauline Curnier Jardin — Virages vierges: moving image, theatre and installation around bodies, ritual, fiction, gender and deviation.
• Cathy de Monchaux — Studio, Wounds and Battles, Desire is the Reiteration of Hope: a retrospective of sculpture and installation where desire, trauma, beauty and violence become materially intense.
• Benoît Piéron — Vernis à ombres: an installation shaped by hospital experience, illness, softness and altered states of care.
• Joseph Grigely — This is where we are: a project questioning access and shared movement through space.
• Jesse Darling — Les Ambassadeurs: fragile, unstable sculptures using industrial and found materials to question systems of authority.
• Lucie Camous and Étienne Chosson — Cheryl Marie Wade: a tribute to a key figure in disabled artists’ and “crip” culture.
• Neïla Czermak Ichti: drawings and textile sculptures exploring family, secrecy, the monstrous and the normal.
• Lassana Sarre: paintings that bring attention to the daily life and often invisible presence of the Palais de Tokyo’s security guards.

The season feels like a living anatomy of contemporary vulnerability: not sentimental, not decorative, but political, intimate and deeply human.