Jiashun Zhou
b. 1999, Chinese
Luzie Meyer: Betrayals of the Possible
Fanta-MLN, Milan, IT
On view until January 31, Luzie Meyer returns to Fanta-MLN for her second solo exhibition, with a powerful new pairing of sound and image with Betrayals of the Possible. Centered around Berlin Piece for Voice and Tap Dance (2025)—a six-channel audio installation originally commissioned for the 13th Berlin Biennale—the show considers the rhythms, tensions, and constraints of artistic expression in times of cultural unrest.
At the core of the installation is a sonic dialogue between voice and movement. Tap dancer Cristina Delius performs a series of improvisations that recall both the syncopated pulse of the machine age and the layered, multicultural history of tap itself—an artform born out of oppression, entertainment, and survival. Over this percussive ground, Meyer layers a poetic text in English and German. Composed between October 2024 and June 2025, during a period of political and cultural friction in Berlin, the text shifts across registers: from artist meetings and senate debates to personal observation, held together by Meyer’s signature linguistic play—rhyme, rhythm, homophony, and dissonance.
The piece pulses with an anxious energy that reflects both systemic pressure and private reflection, mapping the emotional terrain that underpins the cultural sphere. Alongside the sound work is a suite of Argyrotype prints, made from photographs of rehearsals with Delius. Using an iron-silver printing process, Meyer isolates the dancer’s footwork into a near-abstract motif—repetitive, expressive, and ghostly. They narrate something real yet elusive, functioning as fragile translations of a lived moment into photographic fiction.
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Last Updated on January 19, 2026
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About the author:
Julien Delagrange (b. 1994, BE) is an art historian, contemporary artist, and the director of CAI and CAI Gallery. Previously, Delagrange has worked for the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels, the Jan Vercruysse Foundation, and the Ghent University Library. His artistic practice and written art criticism are strongly intertwined, examining contemporary art in search of new perspectives in the art world.
