Exposition : "Semons nos resistances"

Institutional, economic and environmental violence reflect ambitions of control, exploitation and exhaustion of bodies, territories and imaginaries. At a time when the predatory logic specific to the neoliberal model and the hate speech accompanying it continue to intensify, it is essential to oppose them with a firm refusal. Opportunities to make one's voice heard remain limited, however, when citizens are relegated to the status of mere spectators.

How can we regenerate desires for connection and action when our era produces competition and norms, and when it fuels withdrawal into oneself and toxic feelings, starting with anger, resentment and fear? Where can we find the resources to emerge from the night? Struggles, in what they carry of the collective, care for others, joy and desires for emancipation, seem able to open salvific breaches letting light pass through once more, both within oneself and in the structures of the established order. Even when punctual, minoritarian or modest, resisting gestures help rehumanize our presence in the world and the meaning of our interactions. As they multiply and connect with each other, they can transform into irresistible movements within which knowledge, hopes and experiences circulate, and where other forms of relationship and cooperation are shared.

While struggle can be framed in demands and power balance, it is also embodied in transgression, in the care given to vulnerability, in acknowledging one's own privileges, in deconstructing toxic narratives, or in shared and transmitted stories. Empathy, attentiveness, imagination and care then become subversive forces, capable of fueling profound individual, collective, societal and environmental transformations. It remains to invent the paths, practices and horizons to begin this collective renaissance.

Through the presentation of the work of fifteen artists, the exhibition Semons nos résistances celebrates these actions that sow the seeds of a joyful dissidence serving other ways of inhabiting the Earth, attentive to living beings and otherness. More than that, it is an invitation to gather to invent, together, the world we wish to see come into being.