Several Favourable Bodies

A performance lecture issuing from Nemer’s ongoing artist research into the dispersed postcard collection of French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert (1955-1991). The lecture, addressed as a letter to Guibert, recounts Nemer’s encounter with the writer’s library, and a series of research paths and artistic gestures this experience brought into being, touching on AIDS legacies, the material particularities of the postcard, and Nemer’s erotic and affective biography. Nemer is accompanied by a video projection in which he handles, arranges, and rearranges vast paper documents related to his research, including postcards, letters, photographs, and books. Sealed envelopes are distributed among audience members to be opened at a key moment during the performance.  

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Several Favourable Bodies had its premiere at Berlin’s neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst in 2025, as part of the public programming of the Viral Intimacies exhibition, curated by Samuel Perea-Diàz. Nemer is interviewed about his research in the exhibition catalogue. 

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