exhibition & performance
OHrGrüN/VerT d‘OreiLLe
Myriam El Haïk
19/04 – 26/04/2026
curated by Aline Lenzhofer
Opening & Performance, April 19, 2026, 3 pm
Impro-Session: April 20, 2026, 7 pm
as part of the Salam Music Festival
Venue: philomena+ project room, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
Myriam El Haïk, OHrGrüN / VerT d’OreiLLe, 2025, photo: Emil Bauer
OHrGrüN / VerT d’OreiLLe is a poetry-based performance, conceived as a live collage of spoken word, invented language, music, images, and performative actions. Starting from the French expression “ver d’oreille” (earworm), the work explores words, sounds, mistranslations, and their poetic potential to generate new meanings and imagined worlds. The word as world, the invented word as invented world.
artist
MYRIAM EL HAÏK
(*1973 in Rabat) is a French-Moroccan artist, composer and performer. Her artistic language is based on simple signs, patterns, or actions. The links between music and visual art take center stage in her work. She develops systems of visual notations, transposing her repetitive and minimalist musical compositions into drawings, performances, videos, installations, sculptures, and even furniture and games.
OHrGrüN/VerT d’OreiLLe is part of Against the Playbook, a multistage project that explores the subversive power of play when it comes to questioning rules, social norms, structures, and conventions.
Against the Playbook is a collaboration between DAS WEISSE HAUS, where it unfolds as a group show and PHILOMENA+, which hosts two residencies, the interactive project Public Intimacy by Engy Mohsen & Sedra Arab and the performance and installation OHrGrüN/VerT d’OreiLLe by Myriam El Haïk.
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