Sans Patates

Two perspectives, two generations, and the whisper of a shared memory. From the meeting between Tony Baghlali and Mélissa Fournier emerged surprising parallels, flashes of memories and shared stories, all born of the same social background. Through the exhibition *Sans Patates*, their works explore the invisible threads that shape us: everything that our personal environments, our everyday gestures and our family histories leave within us. What we receive without having chosen it, what we hold on to and what we transform, sometimes without even realising it. At the heart of this dialogue lies transmission — the bond that connects generations, places and stories, from the north of France to Algeria, from one childhood to another, from a mother to her children. A transmission made up of presences and absences, of words passed on as well as things left unsaid, of precise memories as well as vague sensations, sometimes crystallised in an object, an image, a gesture or a flavour. Woven from the mothers’ voices and their respective artistic worlds, the exhibition transforms this intimate material into a space for collective encounter, between lived experience and the imagination yet to come. In *Sans Patates*, transmission does not simply mean preservation. It means shifting, reappropriating, reinterpreting. What is entrusted to us is transformed as it passes through our hands. Memory thus becomes a living substance: far from being frozen in the past, it seeks what it can still produce in the present. Opening on Thursday 8 October from 6.00 pm