Pierres sans répit

Intervention in public space
Luise Schröder & Chedly Atallah
35m palisade, a flag & an object
Site: Palisade of the Grand Paris Express construction site,
Allée Anatole France, 93390 Montfermeil
& at the site of Ateliers Médicis,
4 allée Françoise Nguyen, 93390 Clichy-sous-Bois

In a recent collaboration, the artists Luise Schröder and Chedly Atallah cross their practice around personal and collective memory through the prism of the material: stone. If stone is a symbol of time, of hardness, of solidity, it is here the crumbling of stories, a witness to the past and the raw material of a multitude of futures to come. During a residency at the Ateliers Médicis in 2022, the artists draw up a metaphor for the superimposition of layers of history in Clichy sous bois-Montfermeil. Memories are intertwined: destruction, renovation, resistance, gentrification, extensions of fictitious and real territories ... Pierres sans répit (engl. Unrelenting stones) is presented as an outdoor exhibition in public space as a collection of objects, face to face with photographic archives, traces of forgotten histories, invisible and buried moments.

The intervention was produced due to a residency at Ateliers Médicis and the support of the Société du Grand Paris. It was carried out with the help of the Archives of the city of Clichy-sous-Bois, the Archives of the city of Montfermeil, L'établissement public foncier d'Île-de-France, Grands travaux de Marseille, Rihab Abdessalem Kanouni & Moslem Mishmastnehi.

Curator: Clément Postec
Graphic design: Anika Rosen