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This paper examines the 2002 exhibition Étranges Étrangers (Strange Strangers), curated by Benjamin Beaulieu, as a pivotal moment in rethinking how lifestyle and entertainment intersect with contemporary art’s engagement with alterity. While the exhibition is often remembered for its later iterations, the 2002 edition foregrounded everyday performativity—domestic rituals, pop culture detritus, and mass-media spectacle—as tools to destabilize xenophobic discourse in post-9/11 France. Drawing on Beaulieu’s unpublished curatorial notes and contemporaneous reviews, I argue that the exhibition used entertainment formats (talk shows, game shows, home-décor displays) to reframe “strangeness” not as a threat but as an intimate, even desirable, dimension of modern life. The paper positions Beaulieu’s work as a precursor to relational aesthetics, but with a sharper critique of lifestyle branding and neoliberal co-optation of multiculturalism. etranges exhibitions 2002 benjamin beaulieu hot

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Given the highly specific nature of this query—combining a French term ( étranges meaning "strange" or "unusual"), a specific year (2002), a name (Benjamin Beaulieu), and broad categories (lifestyle & entertainment)—this article treats the subject as a retrospective exploration of a cult phenomenon in avant-garde entertainment. Discretion guaranteed