Janique Bourget - Cecile Davidovici - Marion Flament - Flore Prebay - Pierre & Florent - Shanna Warocquier
From April 29 to May 28, 2026

In the fragile space where memory falters, where bodies, places, and narratives transform, traces remain. What remains brings together several artists whose practices explore persistence: that of beings, gestures, images, and sensations that endure despite erasure.

With White Mourning, Flore Prébay explores the gradual disappearance of her mother, who suffered from frontotemporal dementia. Her work gives form to this particular grief, which begins before the loss, when the loved one is still present but already fading away. Through handmade paper, fragile and ever-changing, she materializes the alteration of memory and the vulnerability of existence. The landscapes of Iceland become a mirror to an inner upheaval, a poignant metaphor for disintegration.

Shanna Warocquier's images extend this reflection into a spectral dimension. Her photographs reveal unstable presences, bodies and places permeated by absence. In the series "I wake up but you're not there," the place becomes a vessel for narratives and diffuse memories, oscillating between myths, sisterhood, and vestiges of the past.

Cécile Davidovici continues her exploration of memory by turning to more intimate and embodied scenes. Abandoning the architectural structures of her previous work, she draws here on a familiar photographic imagery. The legibility of the images is challenged by the intervention of embroidery: the thread alters, fragments, and transforms the surface. The crosshatch motif, characteristic of her practice, acts as a filter that blurs outlines and unsettles the perception of bodies. These appear suspended, on the verge of disappearing, in an intermediate state between appearance and vanishing. The images thus become unstable, transforming spaces of memory.

Pierre and Florent's photographic series explore memory through objects and social constructs. Clothing, piled up in domes, becomes both an intimate archive and a reflection of a consumer society. In Ostension, memory unfolds as an experience of exile and return, where territory reawakens a long-dormant sense of belonging, blending personal memory with collective history.

With works from The Miracle of the Sun, Marion Flament explores memory as a collective and perceptual phenomenon. Inspired by the Fatima event, her work questions how a narrative persists, transforms, and is transmitted. Between belief and interpretation, memory here becomes a shared construct, shaped by perspectives and time.

Finally, Janique Bourget explores the memory of forms and materials. Her suspended paper sculptures evolve throughout the exhibition, gradually transforming while retaining traces of their previous states. In this continuous metamorphosis, memory is inscribed as a process, between disappearance and reminiscence.

Through these different approaches, Ce qui reste (What Remains) sketches a memory that is at once intimate and collective, historical and emotional—a memory marked by losses, but also by forms that persist. Not fixed, but in perpetual transformation, it survives in fragments, gestures, and materials that continue to inhabit us.