Résonance

« To sew one's story »

2026

Dates

Sep 01 — Sep 26, 2026

Prices

Free admission

  • Les boîtes à boutons d’Anne-Barbara Dell’Unto © La Mercerie
  • Coudre son histoire à un bouton – Participation de Joël Hubaut -1998 © La Mercerie

Venues and dates

Prices

Free admission

Since 1998, Michel Jeannès and the collective La Mercerie have been exploring social relations using the button as a mediating object. Stated by the artist as "Smallest Common Cultural Object", it becomes revealing of memories and vector of intergenerational links. In the heart of the hospital, this living work invites everyone to tell their story.

Since 1998, the artist Michel Jeannès and the collective La Mercerie have been working on the button as PPOCC, Smallest Common Cultural Object (Plus Petit Objet Culturel Commun), a narrative vector that can awaken memories. The button box is perceived as a "memory box" and an object of intergenerational transmission. The exhibition will present several facets of this poetic, social and participatory work. Stories and testimonies are collected before and during the exhibition from residents of the neighborhood and hospital actors.

At the end of the "talk (about themselves)" cycle developed in Saint Jean de Dieu (2024-2026), this work-in-progress is reactivated in the Bazar of the hospital, at the heart of a place of care that places the human relationship at the center of its issues and maintains a strong rapport with listening and singular speech.

Audience

All ages

Featuring

  • Résonance

Opening Ceremony : To sew one's story

Centre Hospitalier Saint Jean de Dieu

An evening to meet up in the exhibition "To sew one’s story" and meet the artist Michel Jeannès. The opportunity to dive into this poetic work and discuss everyone’s participation in the project.

  • Résonance

Sewing boxes / memory boxes

Centre Hospitalier Saint Jean de Dieu

In the presence of the artist Michel Jeannès, a time of exchange will be devoted to his artistic approach, centered on the social relationships woven around the button and the memories contained in the button boxes. Followed by the reading of certain stories from the website’s button boxes inventory.