Meriem Bennani
Sole crushing
Exhibition from 22 Oct 2025
In 5 month
Free entry, no booking
Monday Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 11am - 7pm
Saturday 11am - 7pm
Sunday 11am - 7pm
Spread throughout the floors of the building, the sound installation Sole Crushing brings together over a hundred flip-flops which play a musical composition. The footwear comes to life, striking different surfaces with its soles and creating an unusual array of percussive sounds.
Meriem Bennani explores ways of being together and the individual’s place within the community. Whether as a chorus, or as soloists, in unison or in response to each other, these bodiless flip-flops evoke the individuals that make up a moving crowd, whether in a protest, a stadium, or a dakka marrakchia ceremony. The simple, banal clapping of a flip-flop, once multiplied, unites the group in a single pulse—that of a force that transcends the individual.
For this reinterpretation of the work originally presented in the exhibition “For My Best Family” at Fondazione Prada in 2024–25, the artist has invited Reda Senhaji (Cheb Runner) to compose a new soundtrack and designed a site-specific installation for the Lafayette Anticipations spaces.
Curator: Elsa Coustou
Cover: Preparatory drawing Sole crushing, sound installation work-in-progress (2025). Reinterpretation of the work originally presented in “For My Best Family” at Fondazione Prada in 2024–25 © Meriem Bennani
Free entry, no booking
Monday Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 11am - 7pm
Saturday 11am - 7pm
Sunday 11am - 7pm
