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Fainting 02.07.2026-05.07.2026
cur. Alexander Rączka, Romain Fueler
off-space 3, rue Portefoin 75003 Paris



(left to right) Céline Vaché Olivieri, 2025, Put your arms around a memory, found item (hood), bramble / Alexander Rączka, 2025, Vanity, mixed media on PVC canvas / Simon Herkner, 2026, Target (children of kush), digital textile printing, custom aluminum frame, adhesive tape / Thomas Dunoyez de Segonzac, 2026, La famille fasciste, oil on canvas / 
Inès Di Folco Jemni, 2025, Cayo Grandma, oil on canvas





(left to right) Antoine Horfee, 2026, Non-Stop hyper, acrylic and oil on canvas / Tessa Perutz, 2026, Arbre Courbé au Bois de Vincennes (Yin Yang), gouache, ink, and watercolor on paper, custom frame / Elias Klein, 2026, Kehl am Rhein, oil on canvas / Francisce G. Pinzon Samper, 2026, The wiener takes it all,  oil pastel on canvas, wood / Beah Shin, 2026,  À la recherche des azalées sans GPS en mars, watercolor pencil, markers on Hanji paper / Nicolas Momein, 2026, After a Heatwave Night in Douarnenez, transfer on wood





(left to right) Violet Cheverez, 2025, Wallpaper, April Binder 2, Water Damaged Print 3, mixed media on paper / Camille Allemand, 2026, Perturbatorr 1, oil on wood / Romain Fueler, 2026, Untitled, oil on canvas / Antoine Leisure, 2026, Mac Mac & Mudd, acrylic on canvas






Romain Fueler and Alexander Rączka present Fainting, an exhibition bringing together 23 artists to explore the fragility of forms and perceptions.

If images still have the power today to provoke disorientation, vertigo, or a sense of dislocation, what remains of this experience in a world saturated with images, 
which plunges our gaze and our senses into chaos?

Fainting draws upon the many figures bequeathed by art history—female bodies seized by ecstasy, vertigo, or syncope: wavering gazes, half-closed eyelids, 
bodies left to their own devices while the mind seems to detach itself from them.

The half-closed eyelid reveals a paradoxical form of attention: a simultaneous observation of the inner and outer worlds. In this moment of transition, 
it is the very soul of the observer that is struck and shaken.

The artists featured in this exhibition explore spaces of uncertainty. The city, conceived as an organ of transition, becomes a meeting ground where stories, 
advertisements, populations, authorities, and beliefs coexist in an anarchic manner. 
Mirroring this urban environment, the exhibition is structured as an encounter between distant realities.
It presents a composite scene where heterogeneous mental architectures, fragmented narratives, modes of circulation, and conflicting regimes of attention cohabitate.

Curated by artist-curators, this project explores the conditions under which bodies, images, and forms circulate. 
It is a reflection on the ways of being in public space and on the power to reappropriate objects and places.

Fainting invites us to consider the fissures and fragilities of the contemporary landscape not as deficiencies or malfunctions, but as active modes of existence and perception.

Linda Woodmill