FILM
Stéphane Mandelbaum
réalisation Jean-Pierre Sougy
(26’16)
One of my earliest films was devoted to painting, inspired by the discovery of Stéphane Mandelbaum’s work through a seminal article by Anne Diaktine in L’Autre Journal. This influential text brought attention to both the artist’s tragic fate—killed at 26—and the striking power of his work, balancing raw violence with profound sensitivity.
Made in 1995, at a transitional moment between film and video, the project was shot on 16 mm, with interviews recorded in SVHS, and edited on an Atlas 16 mm editing table.
Jean-Pierre Sougy
Artist working in painting, drawing, and film since the 1980s, with exhibitions in France and internationally. Writer on cinema and director of television documentaries.
Since the 2000s, artistic director of the Les Inattendus festival, film educator, and workshop leader, including in prison settings. Creates independent films with marginalized communities, as well as illustration and comic projects. A new film is scheduled for 2026.
Valeria Suchkova
pianist, trained in Moscow and Paris, is an award-winning chamber musician and vocal accompanist. She performs internationally and is currently a vocal coach at the CRR of Cergy-Pontoise.
Singing swan with outstretched wings © Marko König
Schubert and Wandering
Lecture-concert (45 min)
Excerpts from Winterreise and Schwanengesang, introduced by a performed reading in French to enter the dramaturgy of the texts.
Winterreise explores solitude, loss, and inner wandering through a poetic and emotional journey. Schwanengesang, Schubert’s final song cycle, gathers songs of longing, love, and farewell, marked by deep expressive intensity.
Marc Schweitzer
tenor, trained in Aubervilliers and Pantin, performs as a soloist in early music and major oratorios, and appears on stage in operatic roles. Passionate about Lied and theatre, he founded the company Notes et Récits in 2022.
Olivia Gutherz
is a cellist and viola da gamba player. She studied with Diana Ligeti, Rainer Zipperling, and Philippe Pierlot, and has worked with renowned musicians through masterclasses.
She performs as a soloist, in chamber music, and with various ensembles, while also engaging in pedagogy. Committed to contemporary creation, she collaborates with composers and explores free improvisation, as well as interdisciplinary performances.
Program — Music
1. Julien Jamet — Composer
& Olivia Gutherz — performance and improvisation
La Crépusculaire for bass viol (approx. 20 min)
Performed by Olivia Gutherz, viola da gamba
& improvisation
2. Marc Schweitzer & Valeria Suchkova
Schubert and Wandering — Lecture-concert (45 min–1 h)
Excerpts from Winterreise and Swan Song, preceded by a performed reading in French introducing the dramaturgy of the texts.
3. Film
Stéphane Mandelbaum by Jean-Pierre Sougy (26’16)
NOCTURNE
INVITED ARTISTS
June 19, 2026
OUVERTURE 19H00
Julien JAMET Composer
Born in Paris, Julien Jamet first worked as a guitarist in various contemporary music groups before turning to composition in 2006. He studied with Jean-Luc Hervé, Gérard Pesson, and Johannes Schöllhorn.
His works have been performed in France and Germany by ensembles such as Court-circuit, Garage, Handwerk, Musikfabrik, Instant Donné, BRuCH, and Trio Catch, and featured in major festivals including Festival d’Automne à Paris, Acht Brücken Musik für Köln, ECLAT Stuttgart, In Front Festival Aachen, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Radio France, and Quincena Musical de San Sebastián.
Once in a blue moon©Izumi Ueda Yuu
A Japanese visual artist based in Lisbon, she was trained in Tokyo and at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of sculpture and installation. A finalist for the Luxembourg Art Prize in 2019, she has exhibited at the Museu do Oriente and the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes.
Her work is supported by numerous international residencies and awards.
No Borders, 2017, solo exhibition at the Museu do Oriente, Lisbon © Izumi Ueda Yuu
Finalist, Sovereign Art Prize Portugal 2025
Izumi Ueda YUU
Trou de serrure © Jean-Pierre Sougy
primarily works in drawing, sculpture, and video.
Since the 1980s, he has exhibited in France and internationally, written about cinema, and directed documentary films for television.
From the 2000s onward, he collaborated as artistic director of the highly independent film festival Les Inattendus, while also teaching cinema and leading audiovisual workshops, particularly in prison settings. His recent work includes films made with marginalized individuals, as well as illustration and comic book projects.
His artistic research has consistently taken shape as an attempt to describe the (human) figure and the processes of transformation that run through it.
Jean-Pierre SOUGY
invited artists
OPENING EVENT
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NOCTURNE
Baigneuse | bather © Mathieu Schoettl
Mathieu SCHOETTL
trained at the Avignon School of Art, he teaches image-making, drawing, and modeling in various Paris-based workshops. Since 2018, he has been organizing workshops centered on the human figure in his studio, “La Chaussette,” in Burgundy.
Interested in the relationship of otherness in creation, he explores all mediums of figuration. His works—drawings, paintings, sculptures, as well as fossilized artifacts or forged armors—probe the mystery of the other through formal expression.
Women © Véronique Menet
Trained at École d’arts appliqués Olivier-de-Serres in Paris, Véronique Menet creates emotionally guided art that bridges the intimate and the unconscious, evoking the inner child.
Her immersive installations combine materials, sounds, and sometimes scents, rooted in her New Caledonian childhood, while her work with textiles, embroidery, and sewingforms a central part of her practice. Since 2004, her works have been exhibited in Nouméa, offering a journey between memory and personal recollection.
Vers un Vente Doux - towards a soft wind © Patricia Bourgeois
grew up in Morocco and northern France before making Paris her home. After studies in economics, sociology, philosophy, and psychoanalysis at Vincennes University, she explored diverse creative paths across France and Greece. Returning to Paris, she trained in art restoration and founded her own business in 1983.
In 2007, she began embroidery alongside restoration, studying color and form. Between 2010 and 2016, she published 30 booklets on contemporary women embroiderers and curated exhibitions in Paris. Since 2012, she continues her artistic practice in Granville.
a New Caledonian artist, began her career in the medical field before turning to art in 2001. She trained at Kowekara, the Nouméa art school, and completed three workshops at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Her work includes group exhibitions such as Le Corps at the Centre d’Art de Nouméa and Koneva at the Centre Tjibaou, as well as solo shows like: Meeting the Other | A la rencontre de l’autre – travel diary in the Solomon Islands at the Centre d’Art and the South Pacific Commission.
A passionate traveler, she circumnavigated the globe by sailboat with her family (2007–2009), exhibiting her photos at the Alliance Française and Focus Contemporary Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa.
THE ARTISTS
Artists from diverse cultural and geographical backgrounds
engage with what makes us human.
From subjective positions, they observe, question, and translate the livings through sensitive, metaphorical, lyrical, and critical forms.
The exhibition is a laboratory of encounters
—where creativity reveals empathy, resilience, critique, and imagination,
opening new ways of seeing, thinking, and connecting.
CURATORSHIP
Margalit Berriet, Founding Director of Mémoire de l’Avenir
with Helen Margaret Giovanello, Research - Artist
Mémoire de l'Avenir
using arts and culture as tools for dialogue and understanding.
If you would like to submit a project (exhibition, evening talks, debates, or performances),
please contact us via email at contact@memoire-a-venir.org
.
Natalie MEI
DANS TON COMBAT
© Natalie MEI
Patricia BOURGEOIS
© Véronique Menet, Liberté
May 21 – June 20, 2026
Mémoire de l’Avenir – Humanities, Arts and Society
will host an exhibition event
Revealing the Human
Exploring the living, in all its forms—
human, animal, plant—
each carried by the breath of existence.
To stand at the threshold:
between nature and culture,
between the intelligence of the living
and artificial intelligence.
We are beings in becoming,
constantly reworking ourselves,
transforming,
risking who we are.
As Georg Bertram suggests,
our practices remain open—
to revision, to critique,
to the unknown.
So we negotiate,
with the world,
with others,
with ourselves.
And art is that space.
A place to put oneself into play,
where self meets other,
where forms and materials—
architecture, sculpture, painting, music, poetry—
shape how we exist in the world.
To experience art
is to embrace instability,
to open a breach,
and let being move through us.
Revealing the Human
Patricia Bourgeois · Natalie Mei
Véronique Menet · Mathieu Schoettl
Jean-Pierre Sougy · Izumi Ueda Yuu
May 21 – Juin 20, 2026
OPENING
Thursday May 21
PRESS — 12:30 PM
PUBLIC — 6:30–9:00 PM
FILM SCREENING — 8:00 PM
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