sous la sécheresse de la formule

In her practice, Camille Benarab-Lopez (born in 1989, lives and works in Ivry-sur-Seine) summons forms that reveal silent inheritances, the scars of lived experience, and lives diverted from their ideal paths. Using visual elements, sculptures, installations, literary works, and oral histories, she establishes a dialogue between visual and textual archives, signs and symbols.

The exhibition sous la sécheresse de la formule [beneath the dryness of the formula] presents Camille Benarab-Lopez’s research on the will, conducted during her residency at La Galerie from September 2025 to April 2026. Approached from a point of view that melds intimate, sociological, political, and symbolic, the will—and by extension inheritance—allows her to engage a sensitive reflection on our relationships with our family and our communities, past and present.

Brought together in an evolving exhibition, works based on texts written by invited authors and participants in various workshops held during the residency invite visitors to explore the ineffable, reinvent transmission, and rethink our emotional bonds.

With texts by Julien Delmaire, Diadié Dembélé, Hélène Giannecchini, Vinciane Mandrin, Anne Pauly, Laura Vazquez, Amadou, AKA SP, Amine Bengliz, Arouna, Chichi_93, Chimal, (DH_93), Elyes, Exaucé Lusanga, Glody, IB, Jabran, JR, Léo, Mohamed, Rahil, Sylla, TVS, Vanio, Anonyme, Inès, Karima Arbouche, Kostiantyn Gaiduk, Leïla Boutiche, Mansoor, Mohsinah, M.G.R., Sermine, SP, Anne-Marie Winkopp, Evelyne, Françoise, Geneviève, Marie-Christine, Médecin, Michèle D., Titus, V.A.M.

Camille Benarab-Lopez’s residency is supported by the Seine-Saint-Denis Department.