OPENING
Friday, 3 July 2026 | 7PM–9 PM
+ PROJECTION 20h
EXHIBITION
3 July - 1 August 2026
extension until 1 September 2025
AB SAMUEL | ARCHIBALD APORI | YOHAN
BLANCO | HELEN CHOI | ANGELA FECHTER
SOULEYMANE FOFANA | ROBERTO FRANKENBERG
| GIOVANNA MAGRI | LAURENT MALLET
BOUBAKARY SIBY | REBECCA VINCENZI
PLAYGROUND !
Amine Kouti
Co-director
Before One, Two, Three Viva l’Algérie, Amine had little interest in football. Afterward, it became a different story. At the end of the 2014 World Cup, he met Samuel, who was looking for an editor for what he believed would be the final footage of the film.
The connection between them was immediate, and the project quickly evolved. They set out to find a singular form: writing, shooting, editing, rewriting, and reshooting. What followed was eight years of shared creative collaboration and co-direction.
Samuel Ab
Co-director / Co-producer
In 2010, he received a student grant and began working on his first short film, Football in Algeria. What began as a curiosity about Algeria, and an intuition — to make a film about football, but not about football — led him to his first experience behind the camera.
After two weeks of filming in Algiers during the World Cup, he returned with a dozen MiniDV tapes and a multitude of unanswered questions.
PAR
Samuel Ab
Co-director / Co-producer
with
Amine Kouti
Co-director
Duration: 1h 15min
One, Two, Three Viva l’Algérie
draws on the language and collective imagination of football
to explore the relationship between France and Algeria,
as well as the lives of active players,
former players, and their communities,
opening a space for encounter, dialogue, and reflection.
Within the context of the 2026 FIFA World Cup,
as global suspense reaches its peak and the outcome sometimes appears already written,
a final whistle declares a winner,
a trophy is awarded,
and the world resumes its course.
Every gesture becomes a sign,
and bodies communicate through screens:
a fall signifies failure,
effort embodies dignity,
victory becomes moral proof,
and defeat takes the form of atonement.
“One, Two, Three, Viva l’Algérie,”
a slogan inseparable from the history of Algerian football,
forms the starting point of this documentary.
The film follows the traces of a motto that has become a collective symbol.
Born with the FLN team during the Algerian War of Independence,
revived during Algeria’s national team’s 2010 World Cup campaign,
the slogan left the stadiums in 2019
to accompany aspirations for change expressed in public space.
For more information:
Official website of One, Two, Three Viva l’Algérie
At first glance, this film is a football story:
tight matches full of suspense,
crowded stadiums,
chants echoing in the air,
and heroes wearing the emblems of our modern identities.
THE TEAM
Samuel Ab
Amine Kouti
Isabelle Putod
Sofia Gutman
André Fèvre
Magali Marc
Ihab Radwan
Dominique Maurin Collignon
Production
Synaps Audiovisual Collective
La Belle Affaire Productions
OPENING EVENT
- SCREENING FILM – 8PM *
One, Two, Three Viva l’Algérie 1H15
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PRESENTATION
* Voluntary contribution - in support of the arts
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NOCTURNE
23 July 2026 19H
PROJECTION FILM - [1H:15] *
* Contribution - in support of the arts
© Rebecca Vincenzi
Rebecca Vincenzi
Is a British-born painter. She studied English Literature at the University of London before training in illustration at Saint Martin’s School of Art. Since settling in the Paris neighbourhood of La Goutte d’Or in 2001, she has exhibited in various galleries, including the l’Échomusée and the Lavoir Moderne Parisien. In 2012, she was selected by the French Senate for an exhibition at the Pavillon Davioud in the Jardin du Luxembourg, followed by a 2014 exhibition at the Musée d’Art Naïf.
In 2017, she exhibited for the first time at the Beacon Gallery in Boston, USA. In 2018 and 2020, she was selected for the Beijing Biennale, as well as the Shenzhen Oil Painting Biennale and the Dafen Art Museum, which acquired several of her works. She later presented her Around Barbès series at the Salon de Louxor. More recently, she was selected for the Salon des Artistes Français at the Grand Palais in 2026. Rebecca Vincenzi works from her studio in Montreuil, near Paris.
© Boubakary Siby
Boubakary Siby
Is a true product of Pigalle. A part-time model and former basketball player competing at a high regional level, he turned to photography following an injury.
A strong representative of “chic ghettos,” he grew up in a vibrant and cosmopolitan neighbourhood, where diversity and cultural mixing shaped his “chameleon” ability — the capacity to adapt to any context, people, or environment.
He was mentored and inspired by Stéphane Ashpool, founder of the Pigalle brand, winner of the 2015 ANDAM Prize, and artistic director of the French teams for the 2024 Olympic Games and the 2026 Winter Olympics.
He is currently working as a youth facilitator and a support worker for students with disabilities, while photography has become a central part of his daily life.
© Laurent Mallet
Laurent Mallet
A retired gastroenterologist, found his passion for photography on the misty winter mornings along the Parisian quays. Like B. Brandt, he sees photography as the ability to reveal beauty in the ordinary. His photos, taken during aimless yet purposeful walks, balance precision with chance.
The strange connections between gazes and places, those brief moments when museum visitors meet artworks, show how certain themes endlessly repeat across time.
Balance© Giovanna Magri
Giovanna Magri
Works between Italy and France and holds a recognised position in both the national and international photography scene. An established advertising photographer, she is highly skilled in still life, portrait, food, and architectural photography.
She has lectured at the IED – Istituto Europeo di Design in Turin, at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia, and at the Swiss Consulate in Milan. She has also collaborated with the MART – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto.
She is currently a lecturer at the LABA – Libera Accademia di Belle Arti and is developing several significant projects connected to Montorio Prison in Verona.
BÖKH_©ROBERTO_FRANKENBERG
Roberto Frankenberg
Roberto Frankenberg is a Brazilian photographer. After beginning his career in advertising and fashion photography, he moved to Paris, where he established his own studio.
He later focused on portrait and landscape photography, developing a more personal and narrative-driven practice. His work has led to regular collaborations with major international publications such as Le Monde, The New York Times, Libération, Télérama, and The Guardian.
The DOUTE @ Souleymane Fofana
Souleymane Fofana - Comme_as
A self-taught photographer, his practice emerges from a sense of urgency and instinct. In 2020, as football fields came to a halt, he set the ball aside and turned toward photography. He currently balances his career as a football player with JA Drancy while developing an intuitive photographic practice shaped by Belleville, cinema, and fashion.
For Comme_as, the image is captured by the gaze before the shutter: there is no preparatory sketch. He refuses to freeze reality, instead favoring spontaneity and motion blur, like a fading memory. Through vibrant contrasts, he creates a raw sensory immersion where freedom outweighs technique.
His next step is to travel the world to photograph, with his first destination being Côte d’Ivoire, the land of his ancestors.
Play ground @ Household © Angela Fechter
Angela Fechter
My artistic practice is rooted in photography and video, shaped by a feminist perspective and a strong interest in themes such as the body, identity, and representation. After studying German literature in London, I pursued fine art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. My time in London and Berlin, as well as my participation in a summer academy led by Valie Export, had a lasting impact on how I approach image-making and visual narratives.
The theme of reflection and with it the motif of the Doppelgänger runs through my photographic work. I create an entirely self-contained world, a particular quality of time and space. I dedicate my haunting works to the passing of time and space, to blossoming as much as to what has already faded.
obssesion -Street signs © Helen Choi
Helen Choi
Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire. Born in New York and raised in the United States, she moved to France for her higher education. She spent two years in Paris before relocating to Nantes to pursue a DNA degree.
She describes herself as a multidisciplinary artist, but has long maintained a particular affinity for watercolor and printmaking. Her work is especially drawn to negative space, as well as the interplay of transparency and repetition, which are central to her artistic exploration.
Saint George tuant le dragon © Yohan Blanco
Yohan Blanco
Without pursuing formal academic studies, he devoted himself to music and worked as a musician for twelve years. In 2012, he met Anton Solomoukha, the Ukrainian painter and photographer, and became his model. In 2015, he turned his attention to photography, beginning an in-depth exploration of fine art photography. Strongly influenced by painting, he experimented with a variety of photographic and digital techniques, developing an artistic practice that bridges multiple media.
In 2025, he expanded his practice to painting and produced several works. That same year, he undertook training as a decorative painter at the École Française de Décor in Le Mans, further enriching his artistic approach through the study of traditional decorative painting techniques.
Bagarre © Archibald Apori
Archibald Apori
Born in France in 1987. Since 2015, he has led various projects as a teaching artist, working in secondary schools, correctional facilities, and community organizations. In 2016, he participated in the Contemporary Art Festival at the Toulon Museum. Winner of the Mixed Technical Drawing Prize awarded by the City of Guyancourt in 2015, he has developed an artistic practice centered on the notions of travel, movement, and stillness. Drawing plays a central role in his work, particularly because of its immediacy and gestural qualities, which enable him to explore and develop his concepts.
AB SAMUEL
Filmmaker & Documentary Director
It begins with intuition and an endless curiosity. Then came five years of study between Paris, Bologna, and San Francisco, followed by a multidisciplinary practice shaped by human, visual, and sonic encounters; every film starts as a blank page—an idea, a form, a way of listening, and above all, a story. Documentary filmmaking is an act: a way of tracing the contours of a raw reality and revealing its subtleties and tensions. Filming is also about leaving a trace. Capturing the present, engaging with it, making it visible, vivid, and sometimes poetic. Shifting our perspective on everyday experience to create sensitive works, amplifying the world so that it can speak back to us.
Documentary cinema is, above all, a collective endeavor. It grows through exchange, trust, and collaboration. My work emerges from this shared process, with eyes and ears attuned to the complexity and vitality of human life.
Art et Sport, l’installation du plasticien Matthew Brown © Laurent Perbos
THE ARTISTS
© Claire Tabouret, The Grip, 2018.
Photo : Rebecca Fanuele.
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OPENING
03 July 2026
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12H30
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7PM-9PM
SCREENING
8PM
NOCTURNE
23 July 2026 7PM
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Mémoire de l'Avenir (MDA) | Humanities, Arts and Society (HAS)
bring together 10 trans-transdisciplinary artists
— from here and elsewhere —
Games and sports as common languages,
foundations for respectful coexistence
This exhibition questions what games and sports reveal about our societies:
power relations, competition, inclusion, daily routine, body care,
and our capacity to live together.
Sport and games offer common ground — not as solutions to social tensions,
but as arenas where methods can be tested, divides bridged,
and understanding fostered across differences.
Far from being anecdotal, playful practices constitute systems governed by shared rules,
where strategy, chance, cooperation, and fairness shape interactions.
Like the arts, play is a universal language that crosses cultures and territories,
connects the urban and the rural, the individual and the collective,
the intimate and the spectacular.
Artists questioning contemporary social, political, or simply body care and routine
through the lens of games and sport
— sometimes subverting or reinventing the rules,
opening up new fields of encounter.
Original concept by
AB SAMUEL
One, Two, Three Viva l'Algérie
(film)
with Mémoire de l'Avenir
The World Cup travels the globe, creating a paradoxical space — of sharing and separation at once.
Its lines connect as much as they divide:
neighbourhoods, generations, cultures, and social classes.
Sport, far from neutral, reveals a grammar of power.
“The system loves symbolic victories.
They cost less than real change.”
— Naomi Klein
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