Une exposition où s’entremêlent héritages, mémoires et migrations

Frac Île-de-France Les Réserves

"Des gestes de nos mondes" brings together works from the Frac Île-de-France collection and creations by artists based in Tunisia or originating from the southern shore of the Mediterranean. Opening: Sunday 13.09.26, from 3pm to 7pm Co-curators: Hela Djobbi, Salma Kossemtini and Cindy Olohou First presented at Les Réserves in Romainville then in 2027 at 32bis in Tunis, the exhibition was born from a collaboration between the two institutions. Throughout the exhibition, photographs, videos, sculptures, textiles, archives, objects and everyday gestures compose a landscape of narratives where family stories, memories, migrations, languages, know-how and heritages intertwine. The artists are less interested in the archive as a fixed trace of the past than in what it continues to produce in the present: what it transmits, what it transforms, what it lets disappear. The works explore the multiple ways in which a memory is constructed. Some draw on documents or testimonies; others reinvent fragments of history, shift points of view or give space to narratives long left on the margins. All of them question what makes memory: a repeated gesture, a photograph, a material, a transmitted word, a landscape or an absence. The Mediterranean appears here not as a border or a single territory, but as a space crossed by circulations, displacements and multiple imaginaries. Histories intersect there, respond to one another, sometimes contradict each other. They draw a geography made as much of connections as of distances. Rather than fixing the past, Des gestes de nos mondes invites us to look at the archive as a living material, always liable to be reinterpreted. The works do not seek to impose a single narrative; they open a space where different voices coexist, engage in dialogue and shift our gaze. With works by: Alex Ayed*, Ahmed Ben Nessib, Chams Barkaoui, Safouane Ben Slama*, Djabril Boukhenaïssi*, Nidhal Chamekh, Dhia Dhibi, Férielle Doulain-Zouari, Eve Gabriel Chabanon*, Wiame Haddad*, Kapwani Kiwanga*, Wafa Lazhari, Dalila Mahdjoub**, Aymen Mbarki, Aïcha Snoussi*, Fanny Souade Sow*, Bochra Taboubi, Djamel Tatah*, Bochra Triki. *Works from the Frac Île-de-France collection **Loan from the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA

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