Mémoire Urbaine et Collective

Mémoire Urbaine et Collective

Seven practices. One quiet question.

What does a city leave in those who pass through it?

Seven artists — painters, draughtsmen, ironworker, sculptor, composer — each explore, in their own way, a single idea: not to represent a place, but what remains of it within us.Cities in black and white, Parisian rooftops reimagined, bodies perceived as landscapes, ornamental ironwork carried from Notre-Dame to contemporary form, flowers observed in their patience, sounds of Paris turned into colour and volume, horses and Basque pelota players captured in a slow, attentive gaze, far from the anecdotal.Their works suggest more than they show: an incomplete form that the eye extends, a sensitive material, a gesture passed on. Here, emotion accumulates rather than explains itself. Presented at the Orangerie du Sénat, this exhibition connects city and nature, memory and perception, in a space where experience continues to live on in the one who looks.

Réjane Gold · Caroline Lopez · Jean-Pierre Lebureau · Rémi Segalas · Christine Besson · Arnaud Quercy · Catarrazat

The Artists

Réjane Gold — Painter. Urban landscapes in black and white.

Caroline Lopez — Artist. Scenes of Parisian daily life.

Jean-Pierre Lebureau — Meilleur Ouvrier de France. Ornamental metalwork and living heritage.

Rémi Segalas — Figurative painter. Bodily memory, gesture, and human narrative.

Christine Besson — Abstract painter. Matter, light, and layered memory.

Arnaud Quercy — Visual artist and composer. Multimodal translation and Ideamorphic practice.

Catarrazat — Sculptor. Tactile memory of body and mineral.