Salon Souterrain: Confort Out

by Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe
with giggidalessio duo (Stefano D’Alessio & Luigi Guerrieri), Red Huemer
Noémi Kiss, Ojay Morgan, Zoé-Afan Strasser, Elisabeth B. Tambwe

Confort Out rejects the ideal of immaculate finish, foregrounding instead the scar and the ingenuity of repair. Salon Souterrain proposes a concrete and persistent way of inhabiting space and gaze—a form of resistance in which vulnerability becomes a deliberate gesture of subversion.

In a world saturated with filtered images and ephemeral products, Salon Souterrain critiques the cult of perfection fuelled by social media and accelerated consumerism. The invited artists encourage us to recognise personal and social fractures, as well as the marks of wear and the transformation of materials, as signs of authenticity—standing in opposition to hyper-productivity and rapid obsolescence.

Salon Souterrain: Confort Out thus offers a critical perspective from which to rethink our relationship to objects, to images, and more broadly, to the world.