This exhibition takes a hypothesis as its starting point: that of convoking the dream, both as a subject and a space, for what it can tell us today about our modes of relationship and representation.
This exhibition falls within this twofold movement – both self-reflexive and artistic – bringing together artists Amie Barouh and Chloé Quenum with philosopher Mohamed Amer Meziane, whose common denominator is that of drawing on this oneiric space. Each in their own way seems to invite dreams into their practice as a locus of experience and thought that is always flexible and mobile; not to discern their real or imaginary aspects, but for their ability to create
new forms of interactions and allow us to overcome certain dichotomies, partly derived from Western thought. With a desire to displace approaches and gazes, all three thus strive to incorporate different stories, symbols or concepts into their processes, which have emerged in different regions of the world.
This exhibition falls within this twofold movement – both self-reflexive and artistic – bringing together artists Amie Barouh and Chloé Quenum with philosopher Mohamed Amer Meziane, whose common denominator is that of drawing on this oneiric space. Each in their own way seems to invite dreams into their practice as a locus of experience and thought that is always flexible and mobile; not to discern their real or imaginary aspects, but for their ability to create
new forms of interactions and allow us to overcome certain dichotomies, partly derived from Western thought. With a desire to displace approaches and gazes, all three thus strive to incorporate different stories, symbols or concepts into their processes, which have emerged in different regions of the world.
About the artists:
Amie Barouh
In her films, Amie Barouh (born in 1993, lives and works in Sète) creates representations that are simultaneously gentle and brutal, poetic and realistic, concerning the various realities of the lives of Romani in Paris. She highlights generally neglected places that are rendered invisible, revealing them as vibrant spaces. At the same time, Barouh’s films stem from a deeply personal approach. In them, she talks about her own relationships, hopes, feelings, love and tenderness, fears and
dreams, the ways in which she encounters others, whom she welcomes into her life. She is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris.
Chloé Quenum, Chloé Quenum, born in 1983, lives and works in Paris. She develops an art practice based on the manipulation of graphic, linguistic and mobile elements derived from various cultures, which she extracts from their original context to propose schematic versions of them. These forms, becoming symbols or decorative motifs with indeterminable origins, question the evocative power of contextual displacement and its ability to generate new stories. Her work has been the subject of many solo and collective exhibitions at institutions in France and abroad, including: the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis, Chatou (2024); Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2024); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau (2023); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021, 2014); Fondation Pernod Ricard (2021, 2014, 2013); Fondation Kadist (2021, 2018); Centre Pompidou (2019); Fondation Louis Vuitton (2015); Collège des Bernardins (2014); and Le Plateau – FRAC Île-de-France (2012).
Her works are present in the collections of the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, as well as in those of the FRAC Alsace, Île-de-France, Grand Large and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Crédit municipal de Paris, Fondation Kadist and Lafayette Anticipations. In 2024, Chloé Quenum represented Benin at the 60th Venice Biennale.se.
Mohamed Amer Meziane Mohamed Amer Meziane is a philosopher and assistant professor at Brown University (United States). After passing his aggrégation exam (notably to become a lecturer), he defended a thesis on secularisation as an effect of the “colonial encounter”, at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His work also explores the genealogy of extractivism in contemporary “fossil states” and calls for a metaphysics of decolonisation, represented by an ecology that considers “that which exceeds” the earth, thereby surpassing anthropology’s ontological turning point. Author of "Des empires sous la terre" (2021) and Au bord des mondes (2023), as well as numerous articles, he is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Multitudes and has taught at Columbia University and the Free University of Berlin. His first book won the award for translation from the Villa Albertine.
In her films, Amie Barouh (born in 1993, lives and works in Sète) creates representations that are simultaneously gentle and brutal, poetic and realistic, concerning the various realities of the lives of Romani in Paris. She highlights generally neglected places that are rendered invisible, revealing them as vibrant spaces. At the same time, Barouh’s films stem from a deeply personal approach. In them, she talks about her own relationships, hopes, feelings, love and tenderness, fears and
dreams, the ways in which she encounters others, whom she welcomes into her life. She is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris.
Chloé Quenum, Chloé Quenum, born in 1983, lives and works in Paris. She develops an art practice based on the manipulation of graphic, linguistic and mobile elements derived from various cultures, which she extracts from their original context to propose schematic versions of them. These forms, becoming symbols or decorative motifs with indeterminable origins, question the evocative power of contextual displacement and its ability to generate new stories. Her work has been the subject of many solo and collective exhibitions at institutions in France and abroad, including: the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis, Chatou (2024); Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2024); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau (2023); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021, 2014); Fondation Pernod Ricard (2021, 2014, 2013); Fondation Kadist (2021, 2018); Centre Pompidou (2019); Fondation Louis Vuitton (2015); Collège des Bernardins (2014); and Le Plateau – FRAC Île-de-France (2012).
Her works are present in the collections of the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, as well as in those of the FRAC Alsace, Île-de-France, Grand Large and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Crédit municipal de Paris, Fondation Kadist and Lafayette Anticipations. In 2024, Chloé Quenum represented Benin at the 60th Venice Biennale.se.
Mohamed Amer Meziane Mohamed Amer Meziane is a philosopher and assistant professor at Brown University (United States). After passing his aggrégation exam (notably to become a lecturer), he defended a thesis on secularisation as an effect of the “colonial encounter”, at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His work also explores the genealogy of extractivism in contemporary “fossil states” and calls for a metaphysics of decolonisation, represented by an ecology that considers “that which exceeds” the earth, thereby surpassing anthropology’s ontological turning point. Author of "Des empires sous la terre" (2021) and Au bord des mondes (2023), as well as numerous articles, he is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Multitudes and has taught at Columbia University and the Free University of Berlin. His first book won the award for translation from the Villa Albertine.
Élodie Royer is an independent curator and doctoral student at the École nationale supérieure, in the SACRe Laboratory. Since her residency at Villa Kujoyama in 2011, she has continually worked with the Japanese art scene. Informed by the Fukushima disaster, her works, in the form of exhibitions and texts, partly relate to the interactions between art and the environment from an ecofeminist perspective. Between 2016 and 2020, she co-created a series of exhibitions along with curator Che Kyongfa that were commissioned by KADIST and the MOT Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art (Things Entangling, MOT; Les nucléaires et les choses, KADIST, Paris; Almost Nothing, Yet Not Nothing, Université des Arts de Tokyo). In 2022, she curated the exhibition "Les
Êtres Lieux" at the House of Culture of Japan in Paris, where this year she co-created the exhibition L’Écologie des choses, and in 2026, its second chapter "L’Écologie des relations" will be held at the FRAC Sud in Marseille.
Êtres Lieux" at the House of Culture of Japan in Paris, where this year she co-created the exhibition L’Écologie des choses, and in 2026, its second chapter "L’Écologie des relations" will be held at the FRAC Sud in Marseille.
