Pauline Ghersi

She observes and interprets group dynamics structured by more or less underlying power relations, in precarious social conditions: flat-sharing, the street, minimum old-age benefits, or indebted artistic structures. These contexts enable him to imagine characters in a crisis of legitimacy, identity and masculinity, and to explore our tender, pathetic relationship with consumerism. With derision and deadpan humor, she stages banal situations and grotesque characters such as: a group of Germans in Birkenstocks sucking ice cream cones, three cheapskate roommates arguing about toilet paper, or a naked septuagenarian on the beach complaining about inflation.

Her work has been shown at Secession in Vienna, Glassbox in Paris, Rond-Point Projects in Marseille, CAC Passerelle in Brest, Ravisius Textor in Nevers, Etablissement d'en Face in Brussels, Crac Alsace, La Compagnie and Catherine Bastide Projects in Marseille, Soej Kritik in Leipzig and Villa Belleville in Paris, among others. She was in residence at various institutions, including Triangle - Astérides in Marseille (2017), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims (2018-19), Fugitif in Leipzig, Mayotte as part of Création en Cours, run by Ateliers Médicis (2021), Setu in Elliant (2023) and soon at Les Capucins in Embrun (2025). In 2021, she received support from Mécènes du Sud, which awarded her the Prix Coup de Cœur for her project: Corinne, Gilles, Ber et Georges (2022), and in 2022 she won a grant from the Fondation des Artistes for her series project: Gros Problème (2023). She is currently working on a new film project supported by DRAC Île-de-France.