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Salomé Chatriot and Star Amerasu
Gray Area Festival 2025 Performances

On Opening Night of Gray Area Festival: TO THE MAXX!, experience an evening of breath-driven, nature-infused worlds from Salomé Chatriot followed by speculative sci-fi pop by Star Amerasu.

Salomé Chatriot and Star Amerasu

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Doors: 7:30PM

Included in the Gray Area Festival Pass

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All Ages

Standing Performance

Strobe Warning

Gray Area Festival: TO THE MAXX! presents Salomé Chatriot, whose performances and installations merge human breath, artificial bodies, and hybrid materials to explore the symbiosis between organic and mechanical forms. The evening continues with composer and DJ Star Amerasu, known for her electronic pop and satirical sci‑fi works that examine queer identity, intimacy, and liberation.

Get access to our performances, conference talks, and exhibition with the Gray Area Festival Pass, or attend each night of performances with individual tickets.

About the Artists

Salomé Chatriot

Salomé Chatriot (1995) is based between Geneva and Paris. Since 2019, Chatriot has been deploying her breath through Fragile Ecosystem, a series of procedural performances hosted in different contexts with which she interacts through a medical machine capturing her breath in real time: a spirometer. This original respiration shapes the contours of an expanding landscape where paintings, sculptures, installations and videos blend, reflecting volumes painted on aluminum and crystallized milk extracted from artificial bodies. Within this fertile matrix, the artist and her machines are suspended in equilibrium. They merge harmoniously to form a hybrid entity governed by elastic tensions. In 2021, Salomé Chatriot was selected by Cécilia Alemani for the Biennale College Arte workshop at the 59th Venice Biennale. She directed her first film, 'Our Symbiosis Infected her Fertile Systems' produced by Unfinished Camp, based on a proposal by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and András Szantó. The film has been shown at the Shed Museum in New York and at the HEK in Basel. Salomé Chatriot has performed among others venues at Lafayette Anticipations and the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, in Gstaad with the Luma Foundation, at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid, and at The Bass Museum in Miami. In 2024, a selection of her films, videos, paintings and sculptures were shown at Germany’s Marta Herford Museum as part of an exhibition exploring the intersecting relationships between art and technology: 'Between Pixel and Pigment. Hybrid Painting in Postdigital Times.' Chatriot is currently creating a new set of interactive leather sculptures with Hermes, part of their artist residencies program.

Star Amerasu

Star Amerasu is a critically acclaimed musician, multidisciplinary performance artist, DJ, filmmaker, and storyteller whose work merges club culture with speculative fiction. Known for embodying original artificial intelligence characters from a dystopian year 2099– evoking the theatrical precision of the Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager. She delivers viral missives that fuse humor, social critique, and sci-fi worldbuilding.

Her genre-crossing practice—spanning house and tech house DJ sets, short films, and new media performances—has earned recognition from many publications including Billboard, Nowness, Paper, and Interview Magazine, which spotlighted her innovative use of technology in narrative performance. Whether commanding a dance floor or performing in character, Star uses technology as both subject and stage, crafting seductive, subversive visions of the future.

Gray Area Festival: TO THE MAXX!

Join us from September 11–14 for Gray Area Festival: TO THE MAXX!, our annual survey of culture through the lens of creative practice, featuring a conference, performances, workshops, and an exhibition.

When you purchase a Festival Pass, you’ll also receive a Gray Area Co-Creator Membership, valid for one year.

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