Using both fiction and history, Mira Mann’s work unfolds through performances, moving images and objects to explore the shifts in individual and collective memory, representations and identities. In their recent practice, the front and backstage have taken on a special role as spaces for construction and deconstruction of selves.

rain real soon is an exhibition following a three-month residency in Paris, during which Mira Mann focused on the figure of Korean actress and dancer Choi Seung Hee. Going back to places where she performed during her stay in Paris between 1938 and 1939, Mira Mann collects gestures, dances and sounds, putting into perspective the exoticizing utopias of socialist modernism and their persistence in the desire for the imaginary associated with Asia.

A few weeks before shooting the film that will conclude Mira Mann’s research, “rain real soon” brings together recent works linked to repetition and resonance, the transmission of cultural heritages, and the calls for ectasic, collective and meteorological events.

It’s going to rain soon.

rain real soon
Mira Mann
13.06 – 13.07.25
Curated by Salomé Burstein & Elsa Vettier.
Assisted by Alexis de Bonis.