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Exhibition

Like Spring, I will be many

A collective exhibition with and around Sonia Chiambretto, with Ouassila Arras, Agata Ingarden, Hannan Jones, Samir Laghouati-Rashwan, Luna Mahoux, Josèfa Ntjam, Fanny Souade Sow, Virgil Vernier.

Curatorial accomplices: Victorine Grataloup and Camille Ramanana Rahary, assisted by Léo Ferreiro and Clara Juan
February 8 - June 8, 2025; public opening on February 7 from 5 to 10 PM
Panorama, Friche la Belle de Mai

⮕ Read the exhibition’s guide by clicking here

Co-production: Friche la Belle de Mai; supported by Fluxus Art Projects. Partnerships: Actoral, Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar, Bi:Pole / Le Bon Air, Parallèle

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Like Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Ouassila Arras, Sonia Chiambretto, Samir Laghouati-Rashwan, Luna Mahoux and Virgil Vernier. Courtesy of the artists, Petit Film and the Frac Champagne-Ardenne collection
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Like Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Sonia Chiambretto and Luna Mahoux. Courtesy of the artists
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Work by Luna Mahoux. Courtesy of the artist
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Like Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Ouassila Arras, Sonia Chiambretto, Hannan Jones, Agata Ingarden, Samir Laghouati-Rashwan, Luna Mahoux, Josèfa Ntjam, Fanny Souade Sow and Virgil Vernier. © ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy of the artists, Nicoletti and Berthold Pott galleries, Petit Film and the Frac Champagne-Ardenne collection
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Like Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Ouassila Arras, Sonia Chiambretto, Hannan Jones, Agata Ingarden, Samir Laghouati-Rashwan, Josèfa Ntjam, Fanny Souade Sow and Virgil Vernier. © ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy of the artists, Nicoletti and Berthold Pott galleries, Petit Film and the Frac Champagne-Ardenne collection
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Like Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Sonia Chiambretto and Samir Laghouati-Rashwan. Courtesy of the artists
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Work by Samir Laghouati-Rashwan. Courtesy of the artist
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Work by Sonia Chiambretto. Courtesy of the artist
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Ouassila Arras, Sonia Chiambretto, Hannan Jones and Agata Ingarden. Courtesy of the artists, Berthold Pott gallery and the Frac Champagne-Ardenne collection
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Work by Virgil Vernier. Courtesy of the artist and Petit Film
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Ouassila Arras, Sonia Chiambretto, Hannan Jones and Virgil Vernier. Courtesy of the artists, Petit Film and the Frac Champagne-Ardenne collection
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Ouassila Arras, Sonia Chiambretto and Hannan Jones. Courtesy of the artists and the Frac Champagne-Ardenne collection
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Ouassila Arras, Sonia Chiambretto and Agata Ingarden. Courtesy of the artists, Berthold Pott gallery and the Frac Champagne-Ardenne collection
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Work by Sonia Chiambretto. Courtesy of the artist
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Ouassila Arras, Hannan Jones, Agata Ingarden, Josèfa Ntjam and Fanny Souade Sow. © ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy of the artists, Nicoletti and Berthold Pott galleries, and the Frac Champagne-Ardenne collection
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Agata Ingarden, Josèfa Ntjam and Fanny Souade Sow. © ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy of the artists, Nicoletti and Berthold Pott galleries
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Work by Agata Ingarden. Courtesy of the artist and Berthold Pott gallery
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Work by Agata Ingarden. Courtesy of the artist and Berthold Pott gallery
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Work by Fanny Souade Sow. © ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy of the artist
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Like a Spring, I will be many, exhibition view at Triangle-Astérides, 2025. Photographer: Aurélien Mole. Works by Josèfa Ntjam and Fanny Souade Sow. © ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy of the artists and Nicoletti gallery

A slab of concrete and a smoking air vent occupy the middle of the exhibition space. These are the set pieces for Sonia Chiambretto’s Oasis Love (2023). Like all of the author and poet’s texts, this play multiplies points of view and features several voices, often childlike or youthful. Some of them appear in the bay window and on the facing wall, in the form of quotes.
On Oasis Love, Sonia Chiambretto writes:

“It all started with a poem.
I was in residence in Seine-Saint-Denis in a youth hostel. It was springtime, and I was walking between the apartment buildings with Bintou and two of her school friends. We went into a grocery store to buy cans of Tropical Oasis. After leaving, we stumbled on the brutal arrest of some local youths. We got closer, and the girls recognized one of their cousins. …
I list, I count, I take inventory.
Using a montage of documents, archives, and collected lyrics, in a syncopated chronology, I seek a poetic form, rejecting the linearity of a story or a demonstration, which reveals the ambiguity of our relationship with authority. …
Writing moves the framing; it’s visual, almost plastic, I think. I like to say that a word, a single, specific word, depending how it’s placed on the page, can cause an explosion. …
From the experience of the page to the performance space to the stage, Oasis Love is nothing more than the continued exploration that I collectively carry out with my tools: writing, performing arts, and more recently, visual arts. It’s also a way for me to reconnect with my own family history, repeatedly traumatized throughout history by the French police force’s wrongdoings.”

Twenty years after the 2005 urban riots—a significant event in contemporary French history, following the deaths of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, who, with Muhittin Altun, were fleeing a police checkpoint in Clichy-sous-Bois—the exhibition brings together artists close to Sonia Chiambretto as well as new collaborations. The eight visual artists share not only Sonia Chiambretto’s interest in working-class, urban neighborhoods and the issues specific to their youth, but also some of the author’s methodologies: collecting archives, testimonies, amplification through repetition.

In the Panorama, the centrality of the theater set, of a stage, materializes the ambition—dear to Sonia Chiambretto’s writing and directing—to place the spoken word at the heart of the exhibition Like Spring, I will be many, and to experience its proximity with visual artworks. This stage, on which anyone can stand, will be regularly activated by performances, readings, and workshops.

Performed reading by Sonia Chiambretto (with Lawrence Davis) for the opening, Friday February 7 at 6pm at Panorama (free admission, no reservation required). 

Production: Camille Ramanana Rahary, Florence Gosset

Technical production: Jean-Christophe Aubert, Hugo Bonifait, Simon Bryckaert, Géraldine Charmadiras, Benoît Fremaux, John Girard, Matthieu Girard, Margaux Louveau, Crao Man, Thibaut Magnan, Laurence Merle, Thomas Meysson, Reinier Sagel, Caroline Selig, Vincent Sojic, Laurence Verduci

Cultural mediation: Capucine Tible, Key Soulié

Reception: Youmna Ali, Aude Bourhis, Tatiana Calderon Ellis, Elisa Cardeilhac, Elsa Gasnault, Rachid Hogas, Charlotte Kinon, Agathe Mirafiore, Yoen Murray Burke, Romane Philippe, Souvenir Sitty Bahiya, David Soriano, Mia Suau Annabelle Verhaeghe