SOLO HOTEL

Composed mainly of glass and steel, the sculpture unfolds and adjusts like a body-sized toolbox for use by future residents of Aperto, who can store their belongings, work, and rest there.

Throughout 2025, Caroline Rose Curdy and Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos have planned a series of meetings and invitations to artists, authors, and thinkers around SOLO HOTEL. These three events provided an opportunity to offer intersecting perspectives—visual, poetic, theoretical, performative—extending their reflections on architectural forms; or how the ways we think about and design our living spaces implement logics of power and violence, translating into both intimate and social scales.

Through a series of invitations, SOLO HOTEL has become hybridized by the addition of new forms and the telephone broadcast of sound proposals. A micro-edition in the form of a door hanger, designed by Émilie Ferrat (Espace Ness), accompanies each of the interventions.

The first (*) presented Alpha amylase, a work by Sacha Gabilan, in dialogue with a text by Marouane Bakhti - to be read on site and online, and listened to on the SOLO HOTEL telephone during the event.

Marouane Bakhti's is only available in French : here

For this second edition, Georges J. Ayrault and Louis Chaumier were the guest artists.

An artist-researcher, Georges J. Ayrault's practice draws on his collection of objects and recycled materials, found and hunted down at second-hand markets, reshaped with as much affection as concern. Reused, this collection is the main resource for his installations, sculptures, and other spatial variations on various scales.

Louis Chaumier's installations and sculptures form poetic landscapes born of the mundane and the ordinary. Delving into the norms of interstices full of possibilities, they are the result of formal research based on standardized furniture and everyday objects which, once extracted and isolated from their initial contexts, form spaces that are as disturbing and melancholic as they are warm.

For the third (*) and final occurrence of the SOLO HOTEL activation cycle this season, Caroline Rose Curdy and Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos invite Xavier Michel and Eleni Papazoglou. The two artists use residual performative or graphic gestures to infiltrate the flow of lives that come and go in the same hotel room. Stedman, Lorrain, Denise, Doris, and Delroy—we imagine them coming and going: checking in, jotting a note in a notebook, calling room service, brushing their teeth, checking out. These ritualized banalities speak as much of commonality as of indifference. What remains are ghosts—an object under the bed, a name in a ledger, the blurred memory of a face.