The Laughter of Medusa: Centre tchèque de Paris
28 May - 4 July 2026
Overview

The exhibition The Laughter of Medusa unfolds as a curatorial gesture of liberation, drawing inspiration from Hélène Cixous’s seminal 1975 essay. Here, myth is reimagined: Medusa ceases to be a monstrous figure of fear and emerges instead as a radiant presence whose laughter dissolves patriarchal anxieties. This laughter is not derision but a reclamation—an embodied language that restores voice, desire, and subjectivity to artistic practice. Through a constellation of works that allow the body to “write itself,” the exhibition stages a dialogue between theory and visual expression, inviting audiences to encounter art as a site of emancipation. The Laughter of Medusa thus becomes both a poetic manifesto and a sensorial space where boundaries are transgressed and new forms of freedom are envisioned.

 

Curated by: Lenka & Richard Bakes

 

Lucile Boiron

Marilou Poncin

Lucie Rosická

Kateřina Vincourová

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