ACT I — FROM ALMOST NOTHING

Conceived to open on 19 September 2026, simultaneously with the 18th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art and the European Heritage Days, this first act of FROM ALMOST NOTHING seeks to create a dialogue between the reflections carried by these two temporalities.

While the Biennale, through To Pass from One Dream to Another, explores notions of displacement, imagination and transformation through the reflections of Robert Filliou, the European Heritage Days address questions of persistence, memory and reinvention through the themes: Photography Heritage and Endangered Heritage: revive, resist, reimagine.

The encounter between Juliette Parisot and Nicolas Nicolini takes shape within this shared space: that of what transforms without completely disappearing.

Through photography, assemblage and the displacement of forms, both artists explore the possibility of generating new narratives from fragments, traces and altered elements.

Matter becomes a territory of reconstruction: something displaced or considered residual that nevertheless opens new surfaces of perception.

A way of thinking about reconstruction not as the reproduction of the same, but as an opening toward other possibilities.