The Traverse exhibition explores itinerancy through screen printing.
Drawing, Photography, Installation, Performance, Exhibition. Traverse is an exhibition born from the meeting of several trajectories, personal, geographical, and artistic, developed by the artist Prince Nienguet-Roger as part of a residency with art-exprim in 2025. It takes the form of a sensitive archive space, documenting and presenting the experience of a traveling screen-printing workshop, conceived as a place for collective creation, transmission, and reflection around the notion of itinerancy. At the heart of the project, screen printing acts as a true catalyst. Accessible and reproducible, this medium gives shape to the stories, memories, and lived experiences of the participants. Each print becomes a tangible trace, an imprint left along the way. From place to place (social centers, public spaces, accommodation center), the workshops adapt to their contexts, take root in local areas, and create connections between individuals, their stories, and their environment. The exhibition is also rooted in an autobiographical approach. Born in Brazzaville and arriving in Paris during childhood, the artist examines his own path, shaped by passages, movements, and boundaries, visible or invisible. This intimate experience feeds a broader reflection on physical and mental mobility, and on the ways it shapes identities. Traverse thus offers a narrative of this shared itinerancy through images, texts, and works produced in the workshops. The exhibition space is conceived as an ideal workshop, reconstructed and able to be reactivated, where personal memories (photographs, documents, books, music) coexist with collective traces. A dialogue emerges between intimate memory and shared memory, blurring the boundaries between the individual and the collective. The works presented extend this dynamic of circulation. They invite visitors to become carriers of these stories in turn, taking part in a work in motion, constantly transforming. Traverse becomes a living space, where memory is shared, moves, and continues to be written through each encounter. In partnership with art-exprim. With support from the mairie du 18e and the Ville de Paris. Curated by art-exprim.
Source: paris.fr — photo: art-exprim