Bruno Boudjelal — Ne mourons pas fatigués

Exhibition from 25 April to 22 June 2025

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5.30pm: ‘The routes of exile’ round-table discussion with Bruno Boudjelal, photographer, Patricia Morvan (Agence VU’) and Samuel Delépine, teacher-researcher in social geography (ESO). Moderated by Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux, professor emeritus at the UA.

6.30pm: Opening of the exhibition with Hakim Hamadouche, mandoluth player

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Galerie Dityvon
11 allée François Mitterrand | 49000 Angers

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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 Tangiers) 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 to live and move 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, such as the bathing trunks marked with telephone numbers, or the flower in the test tube hanging on the dilapidated wall of an overcrowded room near the Gare Saint Charles in Marseille – 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, or the Koran as a symbol of all books, or a cuddly toy named Abakar, Bruno Boudjelal places before us hope, this light that always threatens to be extinguished, but which also resists, strangely enough, all storms. ’

François Beaune, Croire en la vie (excerpt)