An exhibition presented by the association Jeunesses et Mémoires Franco-Algériennes, inviting contemporary artists to reflect on memory, intergenerational heritage and transmission in the context of French colonisation in Algeria and its post-colonial legacies.
Tuesday 9 December 2025 – Saturday 31 January 2026
Curatorship: Association Jeunesses et Mémoires Franco-Algériennes
Artists and collective featured:
Collectif Tilawin Project, Cindy Bannani, Zohra Hassani, El Mehdi Largo, Hannah Puzenat, Cléa Rekhou, Maya Inès Touam, Yaziame
Professional preview (by invitation only): Tuesday 9 December, 6pm–9pm
Public opening: Saturday 13 December, 2pm–6pm
Public closing event: Saturday 31 January, 2pm–6pm
Storytelling is an integral part of our lives. Whether fictional, factual, or incomplete, it is the thread that weaves meaning—multiple meanings. This quiet infiltration of narrative into our personal trajectories leads us to connect the events that punctuate our lives. To (re)write our stories is to make conscious or unconscious choices: between each of these stretched or fragmented personal histories, what becomes an “event”, for whom, and why?
The exhibition Between the Silences, We Weave, organised by the association Jeunesses et Mémoires Franco-Algériennes, invites contemporary artists to explore their relationship to memory, intergenerational heritage and the transmission of histories shaped by French colonisation in Algeria and the post-colonial present.
A parallel programme—within the exhibition space and off-site—featuring performances, round tables and short-film screenings, will be announced in autumn 2025.
The exhibition will open in partnership with the 12X12 Festival, organised by Le 100ECS and the Town Hall of Paris’s 12th arrondissement, running from 6 to 18 December 2025.
