In 2025, to launch its partnership with the festival, the gallery is pleased to present a selection of images by Marion Poussier from her series On est là, produced as part of the Regards du Grand Paris commission initiated by the Cnap and Ateliers Médicis.
In this series, Marion Poussier explores the banks of the Canal Saint-Denis, a territory undergoing major transformation. Within these rationalized urban spaces, certain forms of life persist and resist future developments. Bodies assert their individuality; gestures endure — a way of reclaiming the right to inhabit and appropriate these places.
The series is presented in dialogue with the work of second-year students participating in the photographic project « Territoires du réel et de l'imaginaire ». Working along a stretch from Porte de Clignancourt to the Saint-Ouen flea market, students were invited to create image series revealing the place's specific character — through its local economy (such as street vendors and markets) and the layered history of its spaces, up to the ongoing urban and architectural transformations linked to the arrival of metro line 14.
Artists’ and students’ visions complement each other through a shared attention to the traces, presences, and reappropriations of these spaces — at times embodied in Poussier’s portraits, at others evoked through the fragments and reimagined narratives of the students’ works.
École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris‑Malaquais – PSL
The Galerie Callot is a space for exploring and sharing architectural culture, dedicated to the major material, spatial, ecological, and social issues of our time. Supported by the École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais – PSL, which places research and experimentation at the heart of its teaching, the gallery offers free exhibitions and events open to all. It brings together enthusiasts, professionals, curious visitors, and students from French and international architecture schools to collectively imagine new ways of inhabiting the world.
As part of its partnership with the festival, the gallery will collaborate with a guest artist to create and exhibit a documentary photographic project exploring peripheral urban areas and the everyday lives of their inhabitants.