Exhibitions

What lingers in silence

From November 14 to November 29, 2025 – LAccolade Foundation

With the participation of Fanny Béguély, Guénaëlle de Carbonnières, Dan Hayes, Ninon Hivert, Julie Rochereau, Hugo Servanin & Naz Shahrokh.

On the occasion of PhotoSaintGermain, the LAccolade Foundation presents the exhibition What lingers in silence, bringing together works from its collection alongside pieces by guest artists. Together, they offer a sensitive reflection on our relationship to memory, disappearance, and the territories we inhabit.

Landscapes—urban or natural—are envisioned as living spaces traversed by stories, reminiscences, and discontinuities. At the heart of the project, photography unfolds as a material in transformation. Far from the spectacular, the works presented favor slow, fragile, and sometimes precarious approaches, embracing a kind of aesthetic degrowth in response to contemporary visual frenzy.

Within this context, the artists strive to make tangible what tends to vanish. Their photographic gestures establish a physical relationship with the medium through experiments conducted on the scale of the body or the territory. The images emerge on sensitive, porous, and alterable surfaces, combining ancient techniques with contemporary technologies. They thus open up a field of exploration where the sensory and the temporal, the real and memory, converge.

In resonance with Anna Tsing’s reflections on forms of life that emerge in the ruins of the Capitalocene, the exhibition sketches a poetics of slowness and disappearance. It invites us to attend to the hollowed-out narratives and perhaps to imagine other ways of inhabiting the world—with delicacy, attentiveness, and listening.

- Lena Peyrard

Curator and art critic