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Chiens is presented as a plastic and musical installation.

Following on from La Vie invisible, Sacred and LEVIATHAN, this show is the fourth in a series which, starting from an observation of the hollowness of the contemporary social system, employs the symbolic and performative means of fiction in an attempt to respond to this reality.

Chiens is based on a major court case, commonly referred to as the “porn trial”. It calls into question the extreme violence of the mainstream pornographic industry, trivializing serious violations of human dignity.

The show, for its part, embarrasses our ideal of justice, as well as the organization and conditioning of the contemporary penal system. It questions the history of our gaze through the prism of the pornographic industry, beyond good and evil.

Chiens attempts to put the unheard victims of a system of representations back at the center, and to operate tipping points. The oxymoronic confrontation between the liturgical form of the music and its dialogue with pornography exposes violence, ridicules the norm, challenges it, repossesses its confiscated conflicts, frees itself.

Organized around two Bach cantatas adapted by Othman Louati, to which is added original music he composed, Chiens features a hybrid choir of professional and amateur performers accompanied by the musicians of Miroirs Étendus.