With "Mérou", Lou Trotignon presents one of the first comedy shows in France to tell their transition story. After winning over queer and straight audiences alike, Lou takes the stage at La Scala in collaboration with the LGBTQI+ archives center to pay tribute to the legacy of trans struggles, placing the show within a larger History.
The exhibition brings together fragments: protest slogans, excerpts from oral archives, activist publications, images, and everyday objects. These are traces of presences, lives, and moments that were visible or rendered invisible, spanning different eras and contexts. Rather than a single narrative, the exhibition reveals a plural memory, made up of continuities and transformations, but also of silences and absences. Lou Trotignon offers an experience unlike any other, going beyond a simple show. Conceived as a journey through the theater’s spaces, it guides the audience toward the stage, creating links between these fragments and contemporary forms of storytelling, bodies, and speech. At the crossroads of archive and performance, it invites these memories to circulate, sets them in motion again, and reminds us that they are still being built.
Source: paris.fr — photo: @Marina_viguier