sous la sécheresse de la formule

The residency is supported by the Seine-Saint-Denis Department.

In her practice, Camille Benarab-Lopez 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.

Her residency project, entitled “sous la sécheresse de la formule” [beneath the dryness of the formula], will conduct research on the will and one of the forms through which it materializes: the list. Approached from a point of view that melds intimate, sociological, political, and symbolic, this research will allow Camille Benarab-Lopez to reflect on questions of inheritance and transmission, but also on the intrusion of the juridical into our private lives and our relationships with our families and communities.

During her residency at La Galerie, she will organize and lead writing workshops with various groups of inhabitants of Noisy-le-Sec, in collaboration with invited authors.

Exhibition “sous la sécheresse de la formule” from 21 Feb. to 9 May 2026.