Résonance
COMMENT PEUX-TU ENCORE SONGER A DES FLEURS ?
Extrait d'une vie bouleversée, Etty HILLESUM- Christine Crozat
2026
Sep 11 — Dec 15, 2026
Free admission
Venues and dates
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Maison-Galerie Françoise Besson
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Fromto
Opening hours
Monday Closed Tuesday, Sunday Closed Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 2:30PM - 7PM -
Prices
Free admission
In Christine Crozat’s work, the flower is never merely a motif: it becomes breath, memory and resistance. From Rosa Luxemburg and Etty Hillesum to the Randon sisters and Lyon’s silk workers, it binds gestures, women and histories together, making fragility a form of survival.
“My red and yellow roses all opened while I was there in hell. They went on blooming very gently. Many people ask me: how can you still think of flowers?” — Etty Hillesum
Christine Crozat’s work belongs to an economy of almost nothing, shaped by restraint, precision and quiet gestures. Since 2012, the flower has moved through her practice with silent persistence. It is neither decoration nor ornament, but breath, fragment and apparition: a fragile form that emerges, disappears and transmits.
Through it, histories of female resistance, working-class memory and craftsmanship begin to intersect. Rosa Luxemburg, observing flowers from prison, and Etty Hillesum, attentive to beauty even in extremity, both find a discreet embodiment in this motif.
This memory continues in Lyon through the history of the silk workers and the Randon sisters, makers of artificial silk flowers. Their patient gestures, threads and knowledge resonate with Crozat’s drawings, each one appearing as the trace of a passage.
The flower thus becomes a space of resistance, memory and transmission. It connects women, territories and gestures, affirming that the sensitive can still endure, circulate and create bonds.
Audience
All ages