Charles Mounal is a performance artist, often collaborating with Chloé Dorémieux, creating intense, participatory performances that explore alterity, connection, and the audience’s responsibility within the experience. Our approach places us in the lineage of radical body performance, where the body becomes an instrument of presence, testing, and sharing. As in the work of Marina Abramović, Chris Burden, or Orlan, the aim is to confront the audience with a direct, visceral experience. Our performances combine endurance, ritual, and interaction, turning the audience into not just passive witnesses but morally engaged participants in what unfolds. Principles:
- LOVE: Find the connection
- SUFFER: Find the limit
- Love is real
- Suffering is real
- Set the frame, NOT the path
- Set the frame, NOT the destination
- Draw him towards the body
- Draw her towards the words
- Nobody is innocent
DELILAH
“Violence erupts from the everyday. You close your eyes at night, and by morning your home has been swept away.”
In Delilah, Charles Mounal and Chloé Dorémieux compel the audience to join them — with their whole bodies and all their emotions — to lose themselves and to take responsibility. Imagination twists and gradually gives way to the ruins and crashes of the world.
Delilah is the name of one of the missiles used by the Israeli army to bomb the Palestinian people — missiles on which some soldiers, politicians, or celebrities have written messages such as “Finish them!”
Pictures by Bernard Bousquet
Live music: Théo Duval
Costumes: Paul Clousier
Video artist: Thibault Paris
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, October 2025 – Link
Duration: 30 minutes
AH!
How a single order can transform individuals into a crowd and alter their consciousness.
Crédits photo : Bernard Bousquet @ Le Générateur – Christophe de Barry
« Prevent us from touching at all costs »: from this injunction, the cry is born, continuing until our skins are in contact. Bodies enclosed, he discovers her words, she his, until the next separation.
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, October 2023 – InAct Festival, Strasbourg, April 2025
Duration: 15 minutes
DESERT
Alone in the world, how to find each other (and is it really necessary?).
Crédits photo : Bernard Bousquet @ Le Générateur
Blind and deaf until we find each other, the audience can guide us, distance us, ignore us, or hurt us. In our heads and words, a single and same desert, where we search in vain.
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, January 2024
Duration: 1-2 heures
SALE LINGE / DIRTY LAUNDRY
For twenty minutes, each of us takes a small group of audience members aside. Each group receives intimate confessions about the other performer, passed along in a whisper from one person to the next, until the last recipient must finally state them out loud into a microphone.
What begins as a private, almost sacred moment is gradually turned by the audience into a jubilant free-for-all — revealing what a crowd does to a secret once it becomes collective, once the original conflict loses all meaning and only raw energy and the pursuit of pure confrontation remain.
Crédits photo : Bernard Bousquet & Thibault Paris @ Le Générateur
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, October 2025
Duration: 15 minutes
TO THE CLIFF
Our rawest intentions and purest feelings can never fully reach the other.
Crédits photo : PhilS @ Le Générateur
Enclosed, first invisible, the cages prevent us from directly communicating. Even when freed, it’s up to the audience to transmit, execute the instructions, emotions, needs to the other – never exactly as we would want.
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, July 2024
Duration: 1-2h
BEHIND (water)CLOSED DOORS
As an artist, what is real & who are you, when the public is about to kill you?
Crédits photo : Bernard Bousquet @ Le Générateur
The public can spy on us and listen, while we’re locked behind closed doors. As soon as they decide to, they can interrupt us and force us to perform, choosing the constraints: who, how, for whom. When they choose the ‘for yourselves’ audience, we perform without thinking about the public gaze. Is there a way to make art without thinking about the eyes that undress us?
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, October 2024
Duration: 1-2h
DETRUIRE, DISENT-ILS
To be born, to love each other, to tear each other apart— and then?
Crédits photo : Bernard Bousquet @ Le Générateur
Love soothes as much as it isolates. When we break free from it, we cross deserts, landscapes, and without searching, we find something in the end.
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, January 2025
Duration: 1-2h
LOVEISLAVA
When night falls, there is only one heart left to steal.
Crédits photo : Bernard Bousquet, Thibault Paris, JC Dichant @ Le Générateur
In the dark, the participants fight to be the last one standing. Until they must choose—their life, or one of ours.
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, October 2024
Duration: 1-2h