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  • Le métier de vivre [Life’s work]   research-based, video

  • The video essay tells the story of two male midwives in Geneva, Switzerland. Due to conflicts in their home countries (Burundi and Iran), the two men fled to Switzerland, where they became the first men working as midwives there. Through the vita of these two people, the video essay seeks to challenge dichotomies of man-woman, black-white, north-south, and foreigner-native.

  • Parcours   installation, research-based, video

  • The three chapters of this video installation play in three cities in the Ruhr region of Germany. There are three protagonists of different generations walking down the pedestrian streets of these cities on foot. A long camera movement shows them only from behind, their eyes fixed on what they have in front of them. They tell personal stories related to the emergence and appropriation of public space, as well as the region’s history of coal mining.

  • BIOS: Histoires de la Ruhr [BIOS: Stories from the Ruhr Region]   edition, photos, research-based

  • This artist’s book was created during the research for the video installation Parcours. It brings together many personal and less personal stories that did not make their ways into the videos of the installation: about parts of the conversations with the protagonists of the videos; about a visit underground with three miners in one of the last mines of the Ruhr region still open today; about other artistic practices from the region including those of Richard Serra and James Benning, among others. The stories are juxtaposed with abstract drawings and photos of mushrooms, which stand for the diversity of the stories that were collected in the region, and for the deep connection of the Ruhr region with the soil.