On the occasion of the closing of Jérémie Descamps' studio, after five years of residency at Motoco, an exhibition, a performance, and a public display took place to mark his departure from the space. Under the theme "The Street Peddler," Jérémie Descamps paid tribute to the many peddlers he encountered during his time in Beijing, who gradually disappeared as the city expanded and transformed.
PROCESSUS is an art-science duo created with Jérémie Descamps, urban planner and doctor of geography, whom I met during a residency at MOTOCO (an artistic production space in Mulhouse). Since 2023, we have been exploring together the mental representations of space and territory, and their collective memory, through dedicated research-creation protocols. Notably, through the prism of urban gates, we probe notions of thresholds, passages, and borders, leading us to question ideas of territory,...