Extending the artists’ ongoing inquiry into the relationship between the individual and the collective, Seeping Through explores states of vulnerability, the fragile architectures of endurance, and processes of repair. Through movement and voice, the performances engage audiences in shared experiences where unstable and relational temporalities unfold. By privileging uncertainty and experimentation over the logics of predictability and control, Coëtte and Wenzel bring forth forms of harmony that emerge not through uniformity, but through the recognition and preservation of singularity.
Venue: Cour des Voraces, 9 Pl. Colbert, 69001 Lyon
Célia Coëtte
Born in 1988 in the Paris region, Célia Coëtte is a French visual artist working across sculpture, installation, and performance. She graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016 with highest honors from the jury. Her multidisciplinary practice engages with vernacular rituals such as dance, festivity, and carnival. Working with an economy of materials, she addresses issues of overconsumption and bodily exhaustion. Her installations often take the form of frozen, skeletal landscapes, while suggestions of bodies appear as empty shells that she wears to bring them back to life through the presence of the living body.
Coëtte participated in the 63rd Salon de Montrouge in 2018 and has exhibited at Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Galerie Laure Roynette, PCP, and Galerie Michel Journiac, among others. She has received support from Parc Saint Léger and collaborated with curatorial collectives including Empreinte (2018), Embrayage (2020), and Diamètre (2022). She received the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018 and the ADAGP Grant for the Documentation of an Artistic Performance in 2023. In 2024, she was selected for the Fabrique residency programme at Fondation Fiminco. Previous residencies include Maison Artagon and L’Escaut, Brussels (2019). Since 2023, she has been writing and performing works exploring alterity, empathy, and self-transcendence.
Margarita Wenzel
Margarita Wenzel creates spatial installations that function as platforms for collective listening and shared memory. Born in East Berlin in 1989 and raised in Iran, she draws on her experience of cultural liminality to examine how histories are told, translated, and forgotten. Her work brings together sonic, sculptural, and documentary strategies to form what she refers to as "relational ensembles"— immersive environments in which multiple voices, media, and narratives interweave without imposing hierarchy.
Rooted in a fundamental skepticism toward linear and hegemonic forms of storytelling, Wenzel's practice proposes decentralized modes of encounter. Her installations operate as dispositifs that invite collaborative participation, positioning the act of sharing experience as political, poetic, and open-ended.
Studied at Bauhaus University, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and Burg Giebichenstein University, where she was awarded the distinction of Meisterschülerin and later held a teaching position, Wenzel’s practice resists disciplinary containment.
Her projects have been presented in Germany, France, Belgium, and Turkey, including a recent residency at Fondation Fiminco (Paris). Wenzel lives and works between Berlin and Paris.