Opening on Thursday, July 3, 2025, from 6 to 9 pm
Exhibition from July 4 to September 27, 2025
Summer break from August 12 to September 1
SALOMÉ CHATRIOT
JÉRÉMIE COSIMI
JULIA HAUMONT
GIANCARLO PIRELLI
KARINE ROUGIER
HUGO SUCHET
In the middle of summer, when the heat slows down our movementws and suspends the imperatives of productivity, Galerie Les filles du calvaire presents Motus Lente, a group exhibition dedicated to gentle temporalities, spaces of retreat, and floating states. From July 03 to September 27, Motus Lente brings together six artists whose practices open interstices for rethinking our relationship to time. They trace marginal spaces where temporality expands — the spaces of holidays, summer heat, and empty days, when attention settles differently on the world and the self.
The artists share a particular sensitivity to slowed rhythms, open forms, and subtle gestures that elude urgency. Some of their practices are rooted in time-consuming and demanding techniques, reconnecting with forgotten or marginalized forms of craft traditions.
It is in this spirit that Julia Haumont chooses to position herself in contrast with the present moment, creating installations composed of sculptures that are both organic and abstract in form. Through them, she seeks a certain lightness, a maritime fluidity. Other works, such as those by Karine Rougier, conjure dreamlike worlds where contemplation takes center stage, shaped by the Mediterranean realm she hails from and celebrates.
Hugo Suchet also pays particular attention to the architecture that surrounds him, developing an artistic approach driven by a desire to re-enchant the world and to seek a possible harmony between nature and technology. Giancarlo Pirelli draws from classical iconography to subtly shift its narratives. In his works, male bodies brush against one another, intertwine, escaping rigid archetypes to open up spaces of softness and ambiguity. By reimagining images from the past, he composes silent, intimate scenes where time feels suspended and identities remain in becoming.
Jérémie Cosimi lingers on the simple details of his daily life in Marseille—landscapes, objects, instants—and unfolds a painting practice in search of the light of slow days. Finally, Salomé Chatriot engages breath as a sculptural material in its own right. Connected to a device that records her respiration in real time, she transforms this vital rhythm into a form of listening and presence, reminding us that slowing down is never a given, but a political and sensitive choice.
Together, the artists in this exhibition invite us to dwell, to feel differently, to reinhabit often overlooked temporalities—those of inertia, contemplation, and care. Far from being a mere celebration of leisure, Motus Lente proposes to consider rest as a subtle act of resistance, a moment when the agitation of life is paused, for the whole summer long.
