Augustin Katz and William Basinski's Melancholic Theater at Galerie Derouillon

Galerie Derouillon in Paris presents a collaborative exhibition featuring artist Augustin Katz and composer William Basinski, running from an unspecified date. The show pairs Katz's installation "Study for a Room" with Basinski's rediscovered 1982 composition "Unentitled," creating a theatrical space exploring memory, trauma, and melancholy. Basinski's piece, found in a drawer after decades, evokes "a moment of great shock that reverberates through time and memory." Katz designed a stage-like environment where spectacle becomes ritual, referencing Peter Brook's concept of the empty space and Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty. The exhibition transforms the gallery into a "small ballroom" filled with fallen memories and anonymous revenants, where images and melodies function as ghosts haunting the present. The curatorial text draws on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and Xavier Boissiel to frame the work as a meditation on the "funereal ostinato of our time."