Mémoire de l'Avenir

HOW TO LOVE?

10.06 - 11.03.2018

Daniella Pinkstein - texts

Yaël Ilan - photos

Questioning in astonishment, "How to love each other?" - as at a first time - thinking, growing, being, feeling, remaining passionate, breathing… let go or continue to romanticize, in Jerusalem, a symbol of all passions.

Jerusalem, what astound for love …

Jerusalem the indescribable, intriguing Jerusalem, Jerusalem as a reverie for adoration...

Two women, one is an Israeli photographer, the other is a French writer, both chose to crossroad their visions, and seize this furtive instant, yet also secretive and private second of contentment and of a peaceful silence, that love until its spell, is provoked by this city, as in no other one.

Jerusalem, Overloaded by History of sacredness and of wars, of divisions and of desires, all transported by its narrow paths, while deliberately and instinctively seizing one’s gaze, repeatedly, and no one can escape it.

To love, to love the other, to love the city, is to look at self and to contemplate in order to soothe one’s “grasping "… As appropriating Jerusalem is neither obvious, nor evident… so small and yet so varied, often divided, hazardous at times, plural and contradictory at once…

However, places and neighbourhoods are not surprisingly the convergences of the mysteries of love. Enigmatic spaces - would have added Kafka, of the world’s history of the humanities and of its soul, and of to which we return to, obscurely, altered.

The exhibition is based on short fictions and photos of unpublished sites, faces, characters specific to the immense plurality of Jerusalem. The texts are built around facts, interviews and real stories, but written as short tales.

This face-to-face, yet indirect encounter between a French author, living in Paris, and an Israeli photographer, working in Jerusalem, is also proposing a confrontation between the visuals and the fictitious; an encounter between the known and the hidden, inspiring an expectation that is found within a gaze. A stare thrown on this so out of the ordinary city, yet inquiring, but more often conciliating and soothing.

This is an exhibition like a halt, suspended in Time.

Mémoire de l'Avenir / Memory of the Future

45/47 rue Ramponeau Paris 20

+33(0)9 51 17 18 75

M° Belleville [L2 - 11]

Open Monday to Saturday - 11AM -7PM

Free entrance

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Partner of the exhibition

Fondation Rothschild

Partners of Mémoire de l'Avenir space

Mairie de Paris