Bodygraphie: an exhibition that explores the body and social norms at La Lison Gallery

At the La Lison Gallery, the exhibition Bodygraphie by the multidisciplinary artist Valentina Peruch offers a meditation on the representation of the body, social norms, and perception mechanisms through a series of performances, drawings, and photographs. Presented in Paris and opening with a live drawing performance, the show runs from 11 June to 31 July 2026. Between movement, image, and graphic traces, the project asks how identities are built and made visible in social space.

The exhibition unfolds in three sections. The first focuses on stereotypes and the structures that shape behavior. Through a geometric dance practice inspired by tutting, Valentina Peruch stages a body bound by precise frames of interpretation. A perforated canvas sits at the center of the scenography and acts as a metaphor for society's gaze. A photographic series drawn from the performance extends this reflection on the visibility and legibility of bodies.

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The second section pushes this construction toward more unstable forms. Movement becomes more organic and fragmented, while the practices of bonebreaking and contortion introduce new perceptions of the body. The perforated structure gradually transforms under the artist’s action, until it becomes an image that questions established categories. Drawing appears directly on the surface and accompanies this transformation. The exhibition also notes that "glitches are not errors, but moments when the system reveals its internal multiplicity", offering a more nuanced reading of rupture and difference.

In the final sequence, the frame gives way to a freer space for expression where the body, charcoal, and canvas interact directly. The drawings made during the performance become tangible traces of movement. Through this interplay between dance, photography, drawing, and symbolic architecture, Bodygraphie at the galerie La Lison opens up several avenues for reflecting on contemporary representations of the body and the different ways it can be perceived, shown, or interpreted.

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