Mémoire Urbaine et Collective
PROCEEDING BY SECRET BREATHS
In the workshop of the living where someone multiplies the wave precedes the hand. Slowness prior to the visible.
A rumour seeks its form. Biography of a dream still intact.
The gesture does not decide it is traversed. Breath, memory, tender tensions between the latent and the fertile Disjointed traces, partial echoes, survivals Sensitive archives infinitely replayed Mnemic apparatus where each fragment unfolds without dissolving.
Then matter inclines accomplice to a clear struggle, The line hesitates, the narrative takes itself up again and invents its own weight.
Passage of the wave into a just wound. The gaze yields, learns an obscure fidelity.
The wave returns, there in the fissures captures the enigma and the gesture struggles to follow.
To spell out well the hazards and the unexpected wedged in the corners. To walk our reminiscences with gratitude. The work is already there, on the threshold of deliverance. Intimate necessity.
It gives to the ephemeral a lasting dignity never quite comes to an end and rises in bursts.
To touch, to innervate matter to infiltrate its presence with care, with that little confidence which is enough to remain.
Uncertainty answers lets through what trembles, is missing and calls again. Nostalgic discontinuity and simple flux of occurrences.
Anne de COMMINES
Seven artists
Seven practices
Seven silent memories
What does a landscape, a city, a history leave in those who pass through it?
Seven artists, painters and sculptors, each explore in their own way a single idea: not to represent a place, but what it imprints in us.
The Orangerie of the Sénat hosts this group's first exhibition in late summer 2026.
Christine Besson, painter. Catarrazat, sculptor. Réjane Gold, painter. Jean-Pierre Lebureau, sculptor. Caroline Lopez, painter. Arnaud Quercy, painter and sculptor. Rémi Segalas, painter.
The Artists
Réjane Gold — Painter. Urban landscapes in black and white.
Caroline Lopez — Artist – Drawing, Watercolour, Painting.
Jean-Pierre Lebureau — Meilleur Ouvrier de France. Art metalwork and living heritage.
Rémi Segalas — Figurative drawing and painting. Bodily memory, gesture and human narrative.
Christine Besson — An Artistic Exploration of Matter and Light.
Arnaud Quercy — Visual artist and composer. Ideamorphic practice.
Catarrazat — Sculpture. Tactile memory of the body and the mineral.
Visitor Information
Mémoire Urbaine et Collective
L'Orangerie du Sénat, Jardin du Luxembourg 15 rue de Vaugirard, 75291 Paris Cedex 06
28 August – 8 September 2026
Opening reception: Sunday 30 August 2026, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Open to the public every day from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. until 31 August, then from 11 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. from 1 to 8 September.
Access via place Edmond Rostand, place André Honnorat, rue Guynemer or rue de Vaugirard.
Part of L'été du Jardin du Luxembourg. Over the same period the Orangerie also hosts two further exhibitions: Les couleurs de la mer by Marye Jalabert and Empreintes-Enveloppes, Métamorphoses by Guillaume Werle.
Collectif @Memoire Urbaine Et Collective Edited and laid out by Arnaud Quercy Printed in France 2026 memoire-urbaine-et-collective.org/
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