NOCTURNE # 2
UPROOTED - WOMEN IN WAR
EXPOSITION | RENCONTRES | PROJECTION
6 November 2025
Open Doors 18H30 - Dialogue 19H
PARTICIPANRES
Fatima Besnaci-Lancou,
historian and specialist on the Algerian War and the harkis, chairs the Scientific Council of the Saint-Maurice l’Ardoise Memorial. She is the author of The Harkis in Colonization and Its Aftermath and Our Mothers, Wounded Voices.
Hanaë Bossert,
journalist and creator of the podcast Ma Tonkinoise, traces her Vietnamese grandmother’s story through themes of exile, integration, and memory.
Ana Isabel Freitas,
visual artist, filmmaker, and researcher, explores memory, territory, and transmission through painting, textiles, and film. Her work reflects on the links between identity and collective heritage
The wars of independence caused
massive, silent exiles
whose scars still endure.
featuring Fatima Besnaci-Lancou (on the history of the harkis), Hanaë Bossert (Ma Tonkinoise, family and colonial memory), and Ana Isabel Freitas, artist and researcher, presenting her exhibition FIO – The Intangible Thread:
Gesture, Trace, Memory at Mémoire de l’Avenir.
This discussion explores uprooting as a space
of memory and transmission,
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