{"id":1289,"date":"2025-06-28T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2025-06-28T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:37:08","slug":"jerome-bouchez-paris-is-burning-2009-2025-fragmentation-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/jerome-bouchez-paris-is-burning-2009-2025-fragmentation-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u00e9r\u00f4me Bouchez, Paris is Burning 2009-2025 \/ Fragmentation Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Bouchez\u2019s contribution to the Museum of Fragmentation is a kind of map of fragments, traces, documents, images, and sketches of works spanning over 15 years, condensed into an installation within a space usually reserved for solitude. This space is transformed into a temple of fleeting flashes of everyday life, of horror and pleasure, politics and intimacy, unfinished thoughts, torn images, and constructs \u2014 a de-functionalized object-space that becomes a broken yet compact and self-sustaining sample of fragmented reality in time and its inevitable transience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this surgical intervention into impressions and the horrors of the everyday, the cagoule \u2014 the mask \u2014 is both a shield and a defense against the visibility of identity, but also a protective membrane, a skin preserving one\u2019s own thought-images and their distinctiveness, not shared with anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>portraits encagoul\u00e9s<\/em> (in collaboration with artist Anna Kuznetsova) conceal the face while simultaneously creating an invisible, hidden identity \u2014 from lace to real rabbit fur (in collaboration with artist Victor Feres).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visual and experiential path through this in-situ installation was conceived for the Museum of Fragmentation 2025 by Milan Atanaskovi\u0107..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J\u00e9r\u00f4me Bouchez, Paris is Burning 2009-2025 \/ Fragmentation Museum\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ha-CFHc0Q80?start=36&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Bouchez\u2019s contribution to the Museum of Fragmentation is a kind of map of fragments, traces, documents, images, and sketches of works spanning over 15 years, condensed into an installation within a space usually reserved for solitude. This space is transformed into a temple of fleeting flashes of everyday life, of horror and pleasure, politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}