New Exhibition at Plein sud!

Plein sud is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition do you hear your eye vibrate? by Nada El-Omari, on Saturday, May 23, at 2 p.m., in the presence of the artist.

Wine, Boldwin beers, and popcorn graciously provided.

Free admission. Everyone is welcome!

do you hear your eye vibrate?

Artist Nada El-Omari presents do you hear your eye vibrate?, an immersive installation in which image, sound and text dialogue in disjunction, exploring the acoustic imaginary of incarceration and the regimes of perception that shape our existences. Recipient of the Plein Sud 2025 Grant, she proposes a project rooted in contemporary concerns related to memory, diasporas, and systems of control, both visible and invisible.

Starting from the idea that sound acts both as a tool of power and a space of resistance, El-Omari expands the notion of incarceration beyond the prison cell and prison complex, considering it as a diffuse condition. The prisons she evokes are material, political, and affective. They manifest in the soundscapes we forget to listen to, in imposed silences, and in dominant narratives. A 20-minute looped soundscape composes an immersive environment in which familiar textures gradually morph, revealing the porosity between comfort and constraint.

The installation is structured around five “windows” of moving images drawn from archives collected over the past two years in both analog and digital formats. Rooted in a process-driven approach to cinema, the artist privileges fragment, repetition, and disjunction over linear narration. The eye is invited to inhabit duration, to become a witness to the tensions between urban movement, everyday gestures, and predefined freedom.

Scattered texts throughout the space—poems, phrases, notations—activate an embodied and mobile reading. Writing operates as trace and projection, between memory and becoming. At Plein Sud, the exhibition transforms the gallery into a site of critical resonance, where listening and looking become acts of awareness and resistance.

May 9 to June 27, 2026