For Nuit Blanche, the artists of La Roche offer a sensitive journey through forms of love, seen as an experience of transformation, memory, and connection.
Unfolding in the garden and spaces of the La Roche community hub, the route invites the public to wander freely through a constellation of installations, alternating participatory gestures, immersive experiences, and spaces for contemplation. From thresholds to cross to inner landscapes, from suspended images to sound-based installations, each work explores what connects us and what shifts us: desire, attachment, loss, persistence. Between human and non-human voices, intimate narratives and collective forms, this artistic route invites us to broaden our perception of love, not as a single story, but as a multiplicity of presences, visible or invisible. At nightfall, the turntables call people to dance and transform the space into an inclusive and festive gathering. Crossed through the air by performative happenings, this final sequence extends the evening’s experiences into a collective dimension, where the public becomes part of a shared celebration. A night to listen, feel, and connect differently. Program details: PiaRosa (entrance) Cupid’s Threshold An arch of paper flowers invites visitors to cross a poetic threshold by writing the first name of someone they love. A simple, collective gesture to celebrate love in all its forms. Céline Alson (garden) Alice… Moving images suspended in the garden evoke Alice’s journey through Wonderland. Dream, loss of bearings, self-construction: an installation presented as an echo of the experience of love. Nini Mimosa (garden) La Vouivre Drawings inspired by sculptor and poet Anne Bellefleur explore metamorphosis, femininity, and the memory of the living world. Throughout the night, whispers of her texts drift through the space, in a sensitive feminist homage where love moves beyond time. Catherine Griss (garden) Exile — Us, Beyond the Seas Polaroid portraits gradually form a collective heart, reflecting passing faces and shared stories. A human mosaic where love for another becomes a space of encounter and convergence. Anne Damesin (garden) What the Night Whispers In this installation, the stars are no longer distant. They enter as light and lines. Each drawing evokes a celestial body and also a more intimate memory of the experience of love: love at first sight, a heart in orbit, trajectories that cross. Clotilde Rullaud Nacoulma (garden) Beings: Silent Voices, Invisible Songs A listening cabin invites visitors into a sound immersion, away from the tumult. An intimate refuge where the invisible songs of plants and the whispered desires for a better world come to the surface. Created with the collaboration of Romy Deprez for the construction of the cabin. Azalia Moradi - Maison NAVA (hall) Enchantments of Love Sensitive embroideries weave a dialogue between music and words, where love is revealed as an intimate vibration, on the edge of the sensory and the invisible. An open score that the public is invited to extend on the piano, in a living and shared experience. Lola Merciel (hall) Flow I, II, III, IV Hand-painted silk works whose undulating and sensual forms evoke the movements of romantic feeling. Suspended in the space like veils, these works invite viewers to let themselves be carried by the fluidity of their curves. Joaquìn Rivera (parking lot) Drifts A photographic and sound installation in a triangular form, revealing the plurality of perspectives on love. Each side of the triangle invites a multiple and evolving reading of romantic feeling. Aurélia Zahedi (exterior facade above the laundry) Projection of La Rose de Jéricho In Palestine, alongside the Bedouins of Nabi Moussa, the artist composes a multifaceted narrative that explores, with force and poetry, the myths of the Rose and its land torn apart by human madness. Alice Martina (laundry) Goth Diwan The language of love has no borders. An invitation to write and draw one’s story, one’s thoughts, when passing through this place steeped in history. A creation tinged with the testimonies of the people welcomed at La Roche. POCKET & friends + Cirque Fier.e.s (U) DJ set & performative happenings The turntables call people to dance, transforming the space into a gathering that celebrates diversity. Crossed through the air by performances from Cirque Fier.e.s, this final sequence is conceived as a shared moment, where bodies become vectors of expression and connection, where inclusion is living and embodied. Site lighting: Line Muckensturm Co-production: Le collectif des artistes de La Roche, la Mairie du 14eme, Nuit Blanche, Plateau Urbain Co-organization: Maison Nova, Tzig'Art, Zam Zam Prod
Admission: The route is free, open to all audiences, with no prerequisites. The installations are activated continuously.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Julia Desfour