Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard: Juckreiz

at Galerie Martinetz, Cologne, DE

September 4 - Oktober 17, 2026

opening Thursday September 4, 7pm

special opening hours during DC OPEN (September 4-6, 2026)

As the capitalist system collapses on the surface of the Earth, four martens gather in a basement to imagine a new system.

CLAUDIA: If you place a unit here, it will slowly descend but it cannot go back up.

RACHIDA: And then?

CLAUDIA: You must be patient.

CLAUDIA: It slowly rolls to the other side, and there, it goes back up by itself.

RACHIDA: That’s impossible.

SERGE: It’s the reversed tension.

CLAUDIA: He’s right: the subject gets frustrated…

SERGE: Let me explain to her.

SERGE: The subject races downhill; it first attempts to struggle against the fall, then falls in such a state of disappointment that…that it falls asleep while falling.

RACHIDA: And then?

SERGE: The speed of the fall triggers the activation of the subject’s internal system.

RACHIDA: I don’t see it.

CLAUDIA: The system is running, but the subject holds against it so the system produces a very powerful electrical signal.

RACHIDA: It’s impressive, indeed.

CLAUDIA: When the unit reaches the other side of the slope, it can no longer be stopped.

RACHIDA: And how many units can circulate in the same generator?

CLAUDIA: For now, if we drop them eight seconds apart, we can get nine units for thirty-six minutes. But it’s still very dangerous.