Bâtir

At the Rencontres d’Arles in 2019, Salim Djaferi discovered an exhibition about great urban spaces built in Algeria in the 1950s. Looking at the photographs, something strange started happening: those landscapes looked eerily familiar. The buildings, the concrete esplanades… Everything reminded him of the estates where he grew up with his parents, in Seine-Saint-Denis. Is this aesthetic similarity the result of a political decision? Is the growth of French “banlieues” a continuation of the colonial project? To answer those questions, Salim Djaferi and his team conducted an investigation, gathering the testimonies of inhabitants and diving into public archives to weave together personal stories and official documents, questioning the influence of history on the ways we build and inhabit cities. 

주택 정책과 격리, 이민과 도시계획, 건설과 재현의 문제를 통해 살림 자페리는 프랑스의 도시 설계 방식에 식민주의가 미친 영향에 대해 질문한다. 

With Salim Djaferi
Direction Salim Djaferi, Clément Papachristou
Text Marie Alié, Salim Djaferi, Clément Papachristou  
Documentation and artistic collaboration Hanna El Fakir
Dramaturgy Adeline Rosenstein
Research collaboration Janoé Vulbeau
Set design Justine Bougerol, Silvio Palomo
Lighting design and technical direction Laurie Fouvet
Movement coach Sophie Melis
Sound design Maïa Blondeau
Assistant director, artistic coordination Hanna El Fakir, Skandar Kazan Seckar
Artistic collaboration Sasha Martelli
Stage and sound management Alice Spenlé in collaboration with Ondine Delaunois, Yorick Detroy and Nicolas Marty
Production, distribution and support Cora-Line Lefèvre, Rosine Louviaux, Alix Maraval, Apolline Paquet

Coproduction Comédie de Saint-Étienne – CDN, Théâtre public de Montreuil, La Machinerie (Vénissieux), Théâtre national Wallonie-Bruxelles, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Maison de la Culture de Tournai, Théâtre de Namur, Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse (Lyon), Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Points Communs, Nouvelle Scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise, Théâtre Joliette (Marseille), Coop asbl (Brussels) and Shelter Prod (Brussels)
Support Performing Arts Department of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, La Bellone (Brussels), Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Institut français d’Algérie, Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre Danse, taxshelter.be, ING and the Belgian Federal Government Tax Shelter

Performances in partnership with France Médias Monde