Readings for Sissy Institute

The Swiss Institute and artist Mona Filleul present Readings for S. I., featuring queer and trans writers Artur K., Zora Jade Khiry, Nuri Patricia, Mohammed Zenia, & McKenzie Wark.

This event is in support of Filleul’s first solo exhibition in the United States, Sissy Institute, currently exhibiting at the Swiss Institute. The readings will later be presented inside the listening stations and booths specially conceived for the exhibition.

The reading is free and open to the public to attend.

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ABOUT SISSY INSTITUTE

In Sissy Institute, Filleul continues her exploration of artmaking as a vehicle for creating and sustaining queer transnational communities. Featuring works that blur distinctions between painting, sculpture, and assemblage set within an architectural scenography, the exhibition constructs a refuge for the increasingly policed expression of queer and trans subjectivities.

Filleul reclaims the notion of sissiness as a dissident mode to critique normative understandings of gender. Transmuting structural conditions of gendered violence and economic insecurity into playful, intimate, and haptic aesthetic encounters, Filleul’s exhibition offers an in-between space for sharing the resilience of queer life in the precarious present.

ABOUT MONA FILLEUL

Mona Filleul (b. 1993) lives and works in Brussels and Paris. Filleul has presented solo exhibitions at Air de Paris, Paris (2025); Krone Couronne, Biel/Bienne (2024); sis123, La-Chaux-de-Fonds (2022); DuflonRacz, Bern (2021); Emergency, Vevey (2020); and Los Atlas, Brussels (2017). Filleul was assistant curator for établissement d’en face (2021–2023) and Duflon/Racz (2018, 2020, 2021) in Brussels. Filleul completed a residency at the Centre d’Art Contemporain WIELS, Brussels in 2023 and was named a laureate of the 2023 Swiss Art Awards.

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