In partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in France, the Mondriaan Fund and the Biennale d’Aix-en-Provence 2026.

As part of her first solo exhibition in an art centre in France, Ghita Skali develops a project on the objects and anecdotes that remain or arise after the death of our loved ones. She addresses our relationship to grief and the taboos that emerge from it. The artist pays attention to the ritual gestures of the living that defy logic and that accompany us. Perhaps it is possible and desirable to reflect together on ways of sharing experiences and intentions around grief.

Alongside this reflection is also a political reflection on the movement of bodies. Ghita Skali examines the mechanisms of circulation, belonging and constraint that continue to be exerted on bodies after death. What becomes of a body when faced with borders, administrative frameworks, exclusionary laws and cultural expectations? Whether or not to choose to return to one’s country of birth, and the material realities that complicate this choice, the dead body appears as a space of tension. The artist highlights a diffuse form of violence: that of a wandering that continues beyond life. Grief then becomes a place where power relations are revealed, but also possibilities for reappropriation and choice.

Visits by appointment on Saturday 29 August with Marie de Gaulejac, artistic director of visual arts, at marie.degaulejac@3bisf.com