in the hours between dawns

In these liminal hours, where night has yet to become day, resilient, intimate, and supportive existences persist. The exhibition in the hours between dawns invites visitors to explore these temporal spaces, inhabited by bodies and thoughts lingering in the twilight of an uncertain becoming. It draws inspiration from the figure of Audre Lorde (1934–1992), whose writings have profoundly shaped the fields of intersectional feminisms, lesbian struggles, and anti-racist movements, advocating for the empowerment of marginalized communities through speaking out and taking action.

In her poem A Litany for Survival, Audre Lorde writes from the margins, giving voice to those living in the shadow of silence. For her, survival, while an act of resistance against erasure, is also a poetic gesture: between dawns, vulnerabilities can sometimes transform into creative forces.

Part dreamscape, part fantasy, in the hours between dawns brings together practices that question, untangle, and reshape power structures and hegemonic narratives while imagining sensitive and plural futures. It presents the works of eleven artists or artist duos as so many poems from which possible horizons emerge. Through expressions of the body, the crafting of new narratives, acts of homage, or even the gesture of a caress, they pave the way for the light hidden in the darkest places.
Glimmers in the darkness, chosen families, communities, and legacies become essential resources for the (re)construction of the self and the collective: at once a refuge and an ideal, a space for listening, belonging, emotions, and transformations. This weaves a poetic, fragmented archive in which the collective and the individual, the real and the speculative, converge.

Between vulnerability and power, in the hours between dawns seeks to rethink the boundaries of the visible and the audible, of survival and dreaming. Like Audre Lorde’s litany, it invites us to listen to those voices that whisper, sing, and persist in the interstices of day and night.