Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

La Merde is an immersive audio-visual installation that invites the viewer into a hybrid experience. A mirrored structure creates layers of reflections that blurs the perception of the surrounding space. A life-size sculpture of E.T. (E.T. The Excremential, 2025) stands before the mirrored surface as if confronting its own reflection. The alien’s body results from a morphing between the original character and the artist’s own figure.

On the other side of the structure, the film La Merde is presented within an immersive, spatialised, dynamic viewing space. La Merde unfolds as a manifesto in the form of a cinematic essay that addresses shame as a social construct and exposes the thresholds at which bodies are categorised, tolerated, repressed, or excluded, examining how society produces bodies over which it demands control, restraint, and self-regulation. It approaches abjection as a destabilising force that unsettles fixed identities and exceeds symbolic frameworks of cleanliness, form, and control.

Within this framework, the film also addresses the relationship between abjection and femininity. Female bodieshave historically been associated with excess and impurity. Waste, whether material, emotional, or symbolic, becomes a vector of subversive energy, revealing the mechanisms of rejection and the points at which they crack.