Focu Meu

When Beauty Emerges from Chaos In the Calabrian dialect ‘focu meu’ means ‘my fire’. This powerful popular expression conveys joy, pain, anger and vitality all at once, but also loss and the will to live.  Drawing on all these shifting feelings of inner fire, Benjamin Kahn creates a sensitive, epic and pagan ceremony. With his performers, musical shockwaves and a play of chiaroscuro lighting, the artist creates a multilayered performance in which bodies and elements intersect and exhaust one another, allowing beauty to emerge from chaos. Following three much-talked-about solo works, including Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me, presented at Les Brigittines in March 2026, Benjamin Kahn ventures into group performance for the first time, straddling an intimate cry and a collective polyphony.