project

a reconstruction and an underground passage

Louise Hervé & Clovis Maillet

09.09.2009



a reconstruction and an underground passage
Exhibition view
a reconstruction and an underground passage
Exhibition view
a reconstruction and an underground passage
Exhibition view
a reconstruction and an underground passage
Exhibition view
a reconstruction and an underground passage
Exhibition view
a reconstruction and an underground passage
Exhibition view


Wednesday, September 9th, 7:30pm Meeting at the fountain of Ménilmontant Square (141 rue de Ménilmontant, 75020, Paris, Pelleport or Télégraphe metro stops).

After a short journey through Belleville, the performance will end at the gallery (4 rue Jouye Rouve, 75020 Paris, Pyrénées or Belleville metro stops). Duration 40 min. Performance in French.

At this event we will learn how the Saint Simonians sold their house, how Fantômas renovated his, and why Sumerian demons always settle in underground places.

(...) In the very first episode of the 1913 Fantômas series, directed by Louis Feuillade, while Fantômas is held in jail, a real-time play recounts the equivocations of the Crime Genius as he awaits execution. The play gives Lady Beltham, his lover and accomplice, an idea. She tells the actor still wearing his Fantômas costume to meet her in an apartment near the prison while she bribes the warden to let her see Fantômas one last [...]