This year, Crash 104 once again predominantly features female artists, without this being an intentional choice from the outset... First, Chantal Akerman, whose film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce 1080 Bruxelles and Delphine Seyrig’s obses- sive domestic choreography forever changed our perception of household tasks. The Jeu de Paume is dedicating a retros- pective to her work. Isabelle Wenzel, influenced by Pina Bausch and living in her city, Wuppertal, created an acrobatic fashion story for us, evoking the distorted body of the female model bending to the photographer’s will. Shamanic artist Myriam Mihindou, whose work integrates care, shares insights about her childhood and invites us into her world imbued with resilience and poetic strength. We also discover Loreto Martinez Troncoso, an unconventional performer who creates disruptions and blocks of silence in the midst of pre-established performances, questioning the status of women in public spaces. Emerging artist Mégane Brauer also comes to light, with her radical aesthetics of emptiness confronting us with our silent violences. The Mac in Marseille is dedicating an exhibition to her work. I love the sensation of building issues sometimes without an imposed theme, only to discover in the end a certain coherence, as if a secret dialogue were taking place between spirits meeting within the pages of a magazine...