Today's event

Banlieue: Fiction Territory 

Group Exhibition

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From Thursday 16 October 2025 to Sunday 11 January 2026

  • Le Lavoir Numérique
    4 rue de Freiberg
    94250 Gentilly

Exhibition on view from September 19 to February 15, 2026
Wednesday to Friday, from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, from 1:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
(Closed on public holidays)

Free admission

Guided tour by one of the curators
Friday, October 10, 2025 at 6 p.m.
Monday, November 3, 2025 at 12:30 p.m.
Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 6 p.m.
Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour

Free admission with reservation

Lavoir Conversations: What if we reinvented the suburbs?
Thursday, October 16, 2025, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Free with reservation

A series of works portraying the Paris suburbs – les banlieues – in fiction paint these neighborhoods in a fresh light while dispelling common misconceptions and stereotypes. 

Kaspar Ravel, Derive, 2020

Drawing from references with deep local roots, the artists blur the lines between dream and reality. They reinterpret forms and materials specific to the capital’s suburbs – concrete buildings, transit infrastructure, and areas undergoing a transformation – which become artistic and narrative motifs to build on or question. 

The depictions of this space reveal issues and challenges, but mainly the beauty and poetry that permeate the banlieues. The exhibition invites us to picture potential suburbs that actually exist. 

→ Guided tour and Reinventing the Banlieue discussion in conjunction with the exhibition at Lavoir Numérique on Thursday 16 October 2025 from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm 

Curators: Lise Boulay and Lou Burillier Artists: Julie Balagué, Nicolas Boone, Raphaël Dellaporta, Raphaël Guez, Aurélien Jeanney, Kaspar Ravel 

Cover © Makom, Raphaël Guez, 2025