"Do Not Step on the Grass, Flo Kasearu" at Villa du Parc

For her first exhibition in France at the Villa du Parc, Flo Kasearu undertakes an in-situ investigation based on the building’s archives. She draws inspiration from the multiple lives of this bourgeois villa built in 1865: from 1930 onwards, the building served as a district court, a police station, a tax office, and also as a residence for families.
From these institutional and domestic layers, she imagines a fiction in which the gaze of a solitary child living there in the 1950s becomes the thread of a narrative woven between memory, play, and power.

What happens when childhood games infiltrate institutional affairs? When the courthouse becomes a playground? When judges play ping-pong, police officers imagine themselves as cartoon characters, and children become the guardians of order?
A kind of delightful, absurd, yet often critical confusion takes place.

Do Not Step on the Grass explores the relationships between the public and private spheres. Through role-playing, personal anecdotes, and the playful reappropriation of everyday objects, the Estonian artist questions our relationship to authority figures, overturns roles, and unsettles established hierarchies.

Curated by Laurène Maréchal

Photos by Adagp