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  "description": "Artist in Focus: Bérénice Gaça Courtin works with textile, code and performance to connect resistance history, digital systems and embodied making",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-22T05:12:45.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "**Bérénice Gaça Courtin’s practice**",
    "**_Centre Pompidou Metz_**",
    "**_HEAD Geneva_**",
    "**_Fabienne Levy Gallery_ **",
    "**_Jungkunst Winterthur_**",
    "**Bérénice Gaça Courtin on Instagram**",
    "Submit to Catapult →"
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  "textContent": "## Bérénice Gaça Courtin – Textile, Code, Performance\n\n**Bérénice Gaça Courtin’s practice** begins with a machine and a story. Her point of departure is an electromechanical device once used for encryption and resistance, which she translates into the logic of the loom. What emerges is not nostalgia, but a precise inquiry into how knowledge, power and memory are structured and transmitted.\n\nWorking across textile, installation and performance, Gaça Courtin treats weaving as a language system. Jacquard looms, handwoven structures and digital projections intersect, allowing symbols, codes and figures to circulate between material and screen. The works do not illustrate technology. They enact it through rhythm, repetition and encoded pattern. Textile becomes a site where binary logic, myth and manual labor coexist without hierarchy.\n\nParticipation often plays a central role. In collective looms and live performances, viewers are invited to activate the work, triggering sound or projection through touch and movement. These gestures recall both ancestral craft and contemporary interfaces. References to resistance networks, pagan figures and coded systems of knowledge appear not as narrative devices, but as structural elements embedded in the weave itself.\n\nCourtin’s work has been presented in institutional and experimental contexts, including **_Centre Pompidou Metz_** _,_**_HEAD Geneva_** _,_**_Fabienne Levy Gallery_ **and **_Jungkunst Winterthur_**. Across these settings, her practice remains consistent in one aspect: weaving is not treated as medium alone, but as an operative system for thinking through encryption, collaboration and survival.\n\n* * *\n\n**Bérénice Gaça Courtin on Instagram**\n\n* * *\n\n## **Bérénice Gaça Courtin: Artworks, Exhibition Views and Performances:**\n\n****Bérénice Gaça Courtin**** , Video by Omram Bhagchandani and the Kunsthalle Trier. Performance with Adrian Rehm for the finissage of the exhibition \"Under the weavers's hands\", curated by Çağla Erdemir in Germany****Bérénice Gaça Courtin**** ,. Photo by Omram Bhagchandani and the Kunsthalle Trier for the exhibition \"Under the weavers's hands\", curated by Çağla Erdemir in Germany****Bérénice Gaça Courtin**** ,Fabienne Levy Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland photo by Mathilde Lesueur****Bérénice Gaça Courtin****. \"Surêtres d'ailleurs en commu\" Exhibition Jungkunst, Winterthur, Switzerland. Image courtesy of the artist****Bérénice Gaça Courtin****. \"Mokoshe as a non binary code\" Fabienne Levy Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland photo by Mathilde Lesueur****Bérénice Gaça Courtin**** \"I would make my shuttles fly\", with the musician Juli Wang, Act festival, Löwenbräukunst Zurich Image courtesy of the artist.\n\n****Bérénice Gaça Courtin**** , 2025. .Title \"I would make my shuttles fly\", with the musicians Juli Wang and Pierre Langrand, Act festival, Live in Your Head, Geneva, Switzerland. - then right image Title \"I would make my shuttles fly\", with the musician Juli Wang, Act festival, Löwenbräukunst Zurich © Loane Colatruglio.\n\n* * *\n\n### Want your work featured?\n\nCatapult curates artists and exhibitions built for long term visibility.\n\n Submit to Catapult → \n\n* * *",
  "title": "Bérénice Gaça Courtin: Weaving as Encrypted Memory",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-23T18:44:39.263Z"
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