Offsite

On September 7, 2025

Since 2019, Salomé Chatriot has staged Fragile Ecosystem as a theatre of respiration: a performance in which the artist and her sculptural apparatus wrestle for air.

What unfolds is a brutal pas de deux where bodies verge on rupture, a tragedy of two characters stealing and releasing each other’s breath, caught in a cycle neither can sustain. The structure rises like a pressure point, building toward hyperventilation: intimacy here is violent, charged, and unstable.

On September 7, 2025, a new version of Fragile Ecosystem will be presented in Berlin, commissioned by the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection at Offsite by Wehrmuehle, Friedrichstraße 112B.

Curated by Tjioe Meyer Hecken and Anne Vieth.

The sound, developed in collaboration with ARCH Studio, will be carried through a polyphonic speaker system, engulfing the audience in a spatial choreography of respiration. This time, the spectators themselves are absorbed into the score, their own breath reverberating in the space, complicit in the drama.

The live performance runs on d&b soundscape, powered by d&b audiotechnik

And special thank you to Office Impart Gallery - Anne Schwanz and Johanna Neuschäffer.

Salomé Chatriot (born 1995) is based between Geneva and Paris. She is an artist, performer, and filmmaker whose practice unfolds through breath as both image and event. She stages respiration as a live score that expands into painting, sculpture, film, and installation.

Working with materials she develops herself, such as galalith from milk, leather, and machinic forms, she forges objects in states of ambivalence. These objects act as extensions and restraints, fluid instruments of power and submission, unstable bodies caught in contingent hierarchies.

Offsite by Wehrmuehle is a dynamic extension of the Wehrmuehle art institution, dedicated to hosting hyper-contemporary art happenings in Berlin and internationally.

By transforming vacant urban spaces into temporary, artist-operated venues for exhibitions, discourse, and studios, Offsite embodies a nomadic approach to contemporary art, creating a living interface between artists, audiences, and themes.