Bruno Boudjelal — Ne mourons pas fatigués

Exhibition from June 28 to September 29, 2024

Cargo – Les photographiques de Saint Nazaire
Galerie des Franciscains-25 rue du Croisic 44600 Saint Nazaire

Friday June 28 at 6:45 p.m.: Vernissage

Saturday, June 29, 11:00 a.m.: Brigitte Patient hosts a meeting with the artists and Isabelle Renard, acting director of the MNHI.

Ne mourons pas fatigués… is the intention of a story, that of several migrants met in different cities in France (Marseille) and abroad (Meyrin, Naples, Tunis and Tangier) to bring back photographic testimonies and stories. The aim is not just to collect accounts of their journeys to Europe or of their lives here, but also to show how each of them expresses the will to continue living and moving forward. What enables them to be still here, still standing, to be part of life, and to retain their humanity.

“Through the life-witness objects that Bruno reveals, and the stories they contain, like the bathing trunks marked with telephone numbers, or the flower in its test tube hanging on the dilapidated wall of an overcrowded room near Marseille’s Gare Saint-Charles – one of the rooms we glimpse in Shéhérazade, the beautiful film by Jean-Bernard Marlin – or the soiled jersey of the Somali national team, which will be reborn at the dry cleaners, the Koran as a symbol of all books, or a cuddly toy named Abakar, Bruno Boudjelal places us before hope, this light that always threatens to be extinguished, but which also resists, strangely enough, all storms.”
François Beaune, Croire en la vie

AWA, Naples, Italie, 2019.

DOUMBIA, Marseille, France, 2018

SABRIN , Meyrin, Suisse, 2019