FINE ARTS

Mélody Lu – Merci d'avoir participé

by Mélody Lu

A sculpture-installation where you’re invited to sit beside this strange character: a large, soft dog — it looks like it's wearing pajamas. It’s waiting for something, though we don’t know what. Its gaze is fixed. If you get closer, you can overhear, faintly through its headphones, the stories being told to it — stories of grief, but also of love and joy. Stories of people reclaiming their voice. A voice they were never given, until now. Pedro says that as long as someone remembers you, you continue to exist. Even one person is enough. Say the names. We must say the names — especially the ones they tried to erase from the list of lives that matter.