Fairing (translation 26.02), 2026. Digital prints on polyester fabric, quilting, 64.5 x 63 inches

In her series of works centered on the 119 Pandinus dictator scorpions seized by French customs during their illegal transit between Cameroon and the United States in 2015, Caroline Delieutraz explores—through various media including a series of photographs, a ready-made sculpture, a video, and a scenography—the material, cultural, and symbolic circulation of animals within capitalist and postcolonial regimes. The piece from this series presented in the exhibition reworks, retrospectively and in textile form, the fairing of a T-Max scooter—another globally circulated consumer object—displayed frontally on the wall and evoking a dismembered shell. An exhibition photograph by Aurélien Mole served as a step in translating one form into another and one medium into another. This passage—from object to image, then to textile—organizes a series of displacements. The work functions as its own quilted surface, a space of overlays and rebounds where forms metamorphose according to the digital, material, and imaginary flows that traverse them.
Margot Nguyen, excerpt from the exhibition text for e.x.u.v.i.e.s, 22.48 m², Romainville, 2026.