Exhibitions
Between two worlds, paths and the new cartographies of memory
The exhibition, curated by Manuel Pomar and Clément Postec, brings together a dozen artists linked to Occitania in an exhibition tour that can be visited in Andorra from July 21 to October 3.
The exhibition Between Two Worlds, Paths , open from July 21 to October 3 at the Andorran Exhibition Hall, is part of one of the most relevant debates in contemporary art: the revision of notions of identity, belonging and memory in a context marked by migration and constant mobility. Far from understanding exile or diaspora as closed categories, the proposal curated by Manuel Pomar and Clément Postec proposes a path of vision of these concepts as spaces for negotiation, transformation and production of new imaginaries.
The exhibition brings together the works of Anne Deguelle, Charly Aubry, Joy Charpentier, Eglė Šimkus, Elso Dewever Stragiotti, Lucille Martinez, Marion Mounic, Melika Sadeghzadeh, Safouane Ben Slama, Socheata Aing, Lilie Pinot and Won Jy, artists who share a connection with Occitania, whether because they were born there, reside there, have studied there or develop their practice there. This territorial link, however, is not presented as a homogeneous identity, but as a starting point from which trajectories marked by the plurality of origins, languages and experiences emerge.
Work by Joy Charpentier.
The concept that articulates the exhibition is precisely this space "between two", a liminal territory that escapes fixed categories. Between two countries, two languages, two generations or two memories, the works question linear narratives about identity and propose understanding it as a process in permanent construction. The artists' life journeys are translated into visual forms that make visible the complexity of displacements and the tensions between rootedness and movement.
One of the successes of the project is to avoid an exclusively documentary or testimonial reading of migratory experiences. The pieces dialogue from different registers—sculpture, photography, video, installation, document and performance—to build a choral narrative where family memories, inherited silences, absences and everyday gestures acquire a political dimension. Individual experience thus becomes a way to address collective issues without falling into essentialist discourses or stereotypical representations of exile.
Work by Marion Mounic.
In this sense, Between Two Worlds, Paths aligns with a line of curatorial practices that understand the exhibition as a research space rather than a response device. The works do not offer closed conclusions, but generate areas of friction between memory and present, between document and fiction, between personal history and shared narrative. The visitor is invited to travel this unstable territory, where identity is constructed from the coexistence of multiple temporalities and experiences.
The exhibition is part of Le Nouveau Printemps , the annual festival of contemporary creation in Toulouse, and has been organized in collaboration with Lieu-Commun, Air de Midi and Documents d'Artistes Occitanie. This institutional network reinforces a cross-border perspective on contemporary creation and consolidates the project as a platform to explore the relationships between territory, memory and artistic practices in the current European context.
Work by Socheata Aing.
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