EXHIBITION // INVISIBES // FRAC BRETAGNE // RENNES

© FRAC Bretagne - Invisibles

Invisibles - Group show
from June 21, to Oct. 16, 2025

FRAC Bretagne
19 avenue André Mussat
Rennes

www.fracbretagne.fr

In the British TV series The Invisible Man (1958), physicist Peter Brady becomes accidentally invisible after a scientific experiment goes wrong. Forced to bandage his face to appear visible to others, he nevertheless chooses to turn this disappearance into a force for action. Less visible but just as effective, he adopts a discreet, underground form of intervention, detached from spectacle, yet impactful.

This exhibition draws on the idea of presence through absence, resonating with the concept of fugitivity as developed by poet and thinker Fred Moten. For Moten, fugitivity is not withdrawal but a refusal to be captured by dominant norms. The fugitive invents collective, improvised forms of life from the margins, resisting without revealing themselves. To be invisible is sometimes to survive differently, to create from the shadows, to care from the periphery.

The forms of invisibility explored here are social, political, and ecological. They affect a large majority of the global population, pushed to the margins of society and into the background of representation due to gender, origin, social status, health, age, among other factors.

These forced invisibilities often lead to isolation and, at times, even to hostility toward others. Yet we must not forget that it is not difference itself that fuels the tensions of contemporary society, but the diffuse violence of a political and economic system that weakens solidarity, instrumentalizes diversity, and pits people against one another in order to maintain inequality.

The exhibition explores these imposed disappearances, of bodies, voices, territories, and highlights what endures at the margins: discreet gestures, fragmentary presences, silenced narratives. Perhaps these are other ways of living in the world.

Artists :

Zoé Aubry

Lounis Baouche

Denis Briand

AA Bronson

Mohamed Bourouissa

Tania Candiani

Carolina Caycedo

Scarlett Coten

Julien Creuzet

Roland Fischer

Hreinn Fridfinnsson

Estelle Hanania

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige

Jacob Holdt

Sharon Kivland

Latifa Laâbissi

Letizia Le Fur

Hervé Le Nost

Mehryl Levisse

Anna López Luna & Mounir Gouri

Maha Maamoun

Basir Mahmood

Jingban Hao

Barbara McCullough

Julieth Morales

Benoit Piéron

Sequoia Scavullo

Marion Scemama & David Wojnarowicz

Ahlam Shibli

Malick Sidibé

Maryam Tafakory

The School of Mutants

Yves Trémorin