Triangle – Astérides
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Jouer la montre
Mona Benyamin
Curators: Line Ajan and Camille Ramanana Rahary
May 21 – September 27, 2026
Friche La Belle de Mai, 4th Floor
For her first solo exhibition, Mona Benyamin presents the first version of a new film diptych, along with three earlier video works.
Resonating like an invitation to move, a strangely familiar rhythm fills the exhibition space. Sustained by the drone of a cello and the snap of a snare drum, it gradually turns into a repetitive loop. One by one, then in unison, the voices of twelve performers, whose faces are never revealed, overlap. Their spectral appearance echoes the embodied presence of two recurring figures in Mona Benyamin’s films: her parents. Michel and Nahia Benyamin are, at times, the stars of sitcoms, music videos, newscasts, and at others of horror films.
Drawing on TV conventions that she then subverts, Mona Benyamin plays with comic and tragic registers to tell stories of dispossession and of the intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma relating to the Palestinian collective experience. Laughter, for the artist and her films’ protagonists alike, is a potential coping mechanism or a strategy of psychological survival in the face of the traumas of the Nakba.
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Mona Benyamin, Jouer la montre, solo exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, Marseille, 2026;
Photographer: Aurélien Mole, © Triangle-Astérides, courtesy of the artist
Mona Benyamin, Jouer la montre, solo exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, Marseille, 2026;
Photographer: Aurélien Mole, © Triangle-Astérides, courtesy of the artist