Altkirch | ArtRegion: Basel - Oberrhein

CRAC Alsace

Benjamin Seror: Fascination

14. November 2021 – 6. Februar 2022

Fascination is an exhibition of sad songs, a happy and gleaming exhibition through which Benjamin Seror shares his reflections on art’s ability to provide access to our feelings.

With Fascination, music and song are mobilized as active tools that enable us to inhabit spaces of intimacy, to be moved—tools that encourage us to take action in our daily lives. What is it about music that affects us so much? How can it bring such intense emotional experiences? We are all experts on songs that constitute a kind of internal repertoire of emotions and experiences. To bring songs to the street, the train, or the waiting room, is to bring a space along with us, to bring a whole cultural horizon, an emotional survival kit. What will happen when we listen to Those with the Fake Shoes?

The exhibition Fascination attempts to transmit experiences, stories and knowledges through thrill: the goosebumps on our skin with the passing of an emotion. An embodied transmission carried by eight songs that were written and recorded by Benjamin Seror in recent months—eight songs, sad like our worlds, accompanied by flowers, colors, a few words by Tarek Lakhrissi, and a dialogue with the work of Binta Diaw, Ru Kim, Yan Li and Sohyun Park.