In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc
SEAHAVEN
Group show
Affiche de l’exposition « Seahaven ». Courtesy Maxime Heta
Carte blanche of Lou Revel & Félix Félisaz
SEAHAVEN is a group exhibition featuring five emerging artists at the In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc gallery, opening on May 31.
The exhibition takes its title from Seahaven, the fictional town from the film The Truman Show. In the film, Seahaven appears as a perfectly orderly, calm, bright, and harmonious town. This apparent perfection, however, is an illusion. The town is an entirely constructed set, designed to project the image of a coherent world while being orchestrated by a mechanism invisible to Truman Burbank, the main protagonist. Every street, every event, and every interaction contributes to this staging.
Much like this fictional city, the exhibition explores the artificiality of contemporary environments and the way in which the landscapes, settings, and grid-like spaces of the hypermodern era shape our experiences. Each artist offers a distinct visual approach to observing and analyzing the spaces that make up our daily lives. Their coexistence forms a fragmented cartography of reality and questions what it means today to “make a place”: to activate a space, shift its coordinates, and reveal its tensions.
In SEAHAVEN, the gallery thus becomes a space where different critical perspectives on the world converge. The exhibition is structured like an imaginary city composed of distinct neighborhoods. This structure echoes the concept of “heterotopia,” as formulated by Michel Foucault: real places on the margins where multiple realities can coexist.
While Seahaven, in The Truman Show, represents an ideal city created by a media-driven capitalist system, this exhibition proposes a kind of counter-city. Here, the works do not reproduce this illusion; rather, each in its own way reveals certain mechanisms, structures, and narratives that permeate the realms of postmodernity.
Group show of Rémy Bender, Charles-Arthur Feuvrier Fok-Shan, Gabriela Guyez, Diane Segard and Hélène Yamba-Guimbi
From May 31 to July 19, 2026
Rendez-Vous
Sunday 31 May 2026 from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Opening of the show and meeting – In Situ – fabienne leclerc
93230 Romainville, France 01 53 79 06 12 www.insituparis.fr
The gallery
Founded by Fabienne Leclerc in 2001, In Situ began in the 13th district of Paris alongside a group of galleries in the rue Louise Weiss. After seven years in the 6th, the gallery moved to the Marais in 2013 before opening a new space at 14 boulevard de la Chapelle in January 2017. As a founding gallery of the Komunuma project in the Grand Paris suburbs, In Situ - fabienne leclerc joigned colleagues with diverse public and private interests in contemporary art with 500 square meters of newly renovated historic industrial spaces which opened in October 2019.
The ambition of In Situ - fabienne leclerc is to promote young and emerging artists on the French and international art scene, and to support established artists in the long term. In Situ - fabienne leclerc strives to defend the work of its artists in the gallery, in fairs and biennials throughout the world as well as in museums and institutions.
Gallery artists
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Andrea Blum, Lynne Cohen - Estate, Patrick Corillon, Martin Dammann, Marina De Caro, Mark Dion, Beau Disundi, Lars Fredrikson - Estate, Meschac Gaba, Daniele Genadry, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Gary Hill, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Amir Nave, Haifeng Ni, Otobong Nkanga, Constance Nouvel, Florence Paradeis, Gerald Petit, Hesam Rahmanian, Vivien Roubaud, The Blue Noses, Laurent Tixador, Patrick Tosani, Patrick van Caeckenbergh, Marcel van Eeden, We Are The Painters, Dominique Zinkpè
