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solo show at Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
curated by Laurène Maréchal

What happens when childhood games infiltrate institutional affairs? When the courthouse becomes a playground? When judges play ping-pong, police officers imagine themselves as cartoon characters, and children become the guardians of order?
A kind of delightful, absurd, yet often critical confusion takes place.

For her first solo exhibition in France at the Villa du Parc, Flo Kasearu undertakes an in-situ investigation based on the building’s archives. She draws inspiration from the multiple lives of this bourgeois villa built in 1865. From 1930 onwards, the building served as a district court, a police station, a tax office, and also as a residence for families.
From these institutional and domestic layers, Flo imagines a fiction in which the gaze of a solitary child living there in the 1950s becomes the thread of a narrative woven between memory, play, and power.

Do Not Step on the Grass explores the relationships between the public and private spheres. Through role-playing, personal anecdotes, and the playful reappropriation of everyday objects, the Estonian artist questions our relationship to authority figures, overturns roles, and unsettles established hierarchies.