Liselor Perez — Eglise Saint-Eustache
Presented from October 3 to November 30, 2025, in the Saint-Eustache Church, Liselor Perez, winner of the 2025 Rubis Mécénat Prize, unveils a series of fragmented presences that seem to emerge from the stone itself and break free from it.
Combinations of materials and forms, her recumbent figures exhaust their languid bodies and silently compose new patterns at the heart of the site’s monumental architecture; anchored to the ground, they in turn draw our gaze to narrow its focus and locate the countless textures and designs populating these walls.
Around a sculpture impressive in its calm and gravity, conceived by the artist as an incarnation of the church and made up of many of its architectural elements, her life-sized puppets reveal their own fragility, a contrast emphasized by the polysemic nature of the very place she inhabits, a site of projection, rich with infinite motifs.
Borrowing from the contemporary imagination and rooted in an autonomous practice shaped only by the necessity of its final posture, Liselor Perez’s art draws from the intimacy of the domestic realm the context for an exhibition and spatialization of the image, an exteriorization of the motif. From this passage arise transformations so radical that they border on reverie, on the ambiguity of an impossible stage reconstruction as much as on irony, on the absurdity of a humanity clad in the materials that separate it, at the heart of the home, from the outside. The emaciated, motionless puppet, yet always capable of movement, becomes the reverse side of a mask we do not realize we wear; the mask of our domesticity.
Revealed in the fall of a fabric, as a counterpoint to the viewing angle, aberrations disturb the equilibrium of the bodies and deflect gravity, both physical and symbolic, towards a field more open to the sliding of meaning, to the plasticity of genres. Wordlessly then, with no defined face, it is identity itself, theirs as much as ours, that is called into question.
Supports of imagination and open receptacles for the stories the visitor wishes to infuse, the artist’s creatures compose a motionless pantomime whose fragility we are invited to feel and whose narrative we must articulate, without claiming to master it.
