Rabbits (2023 – In process)

Rabbits is an evolving project built around Pink Bunny — a pink, half-human, half-plush character created during Nathalie Rey’s 2023 residency at Scope (Berlin). Through this figure, she examines desire, vulnerability, and the erosion of the boundary between reality and its proliferating simulations in a world increasingly mediated by images, screens, and virtual practices.

The first chapter, presented in an exhibition of the same name, explored consumer society and Baudrillard’s notion of hyperreality. Hand-sewn objects, immersive environments, and the short film Pink Bunny’s Travels formed a narrative where a lost alter ego wanders through urban labyrinths — both victim and mirror of a hyper-simulated world.

The performance Caged (Alalimón gallery, Barcelona) deepened this reflection: confined in a cage with a real rabbit, Rey embodied the fragile border between nature and culture, freedom and control. Meanwhile, the educational project PING PONG, developed with the Montserrat Solà School and the M|A|C (Mataró), expands these questions through collaborative workshops where children build shelters for Pink Bunny and reflect on vulnerability and coexistence.

All these strands converge in Panoptikum, co-curated with Ayça Okay. Continuing Pink Bunny’s adventures, it addresses exile, marginalization, and surveillance. Its second short film, selected for the VI Andorra Biennal, unfolds between Istanbul, Beirut, and Mataró, weaving a poetic meditation on fragility and control.Through Rabbits, Nathalie Rey creates a hybrid and critical universe where play and tenderness become poetic tools of resistance to commodification, isolation, and the loss of meaning in contemporary life.