Nuit Blanche 2025

As part of Nuit Blanche 2025, the Cité internationale des arts hosted a performance by the Argentine artist Diego Bianchi, laureate of the Jean Chatelus – Fondation Antoine de Galbert x Cité internationale des arts residency programme.

His practice encompasses sculpture, installation, video art, photography and performance elements, which examine aesthetic norms as well as socio-political issues. The artist focuses on the formal and often chaotic traces of consumerism, particularly the fallout from neoliberal economic damage. One of the dominant themes in Bianchi’s work is the use of the human body as an artistic and constructive element. He presents an apotheosis of everyday situations, such as the derailment of human excess and the anarchic order it produces.

In the main courtyard, as part of Nuit Blanche, Diego Bianchi took over the space with Cat Walk: Défilé Suspendu, an immersive performance conceived as a living tableau in constant flux. Through movement, chaos and frozen images, the performers’ bodies evolve within an installation composed of discarded objects such as chairs, pipes, electronic devices and casts of body parts. Their choreography creates a unique visual language, in constant dialogue with the venue and the audience, blurring boundaries and opening up new perceptions of the present.