Intimate journals

Each of them seeks to invent her own visual language rooted in life experiences and family narratives, whether these take root in their country of origin or their country of adoption. Imbued with intimacy, their works form a cartography of these plural identities.

An Iranian artist now based in France, Hajar Satari transcribes her daily experiences in her work: the studio, the domestic space, but also high-altitude mountains. She strives to materialize the different temporal scales she perceives in these places that form the foundation of her life and artistic practice.

Of Franco-Iranian origin, Parvine Curie was born and raised in France. After traveling across Europe, she settled in Barcelona. Her work reflects her life as a woman and a mother, while also integrating the architectures that have marked her journeys—temples, pyramids, churches, particularly those of Catalonia. These forms become witnesses to her observations and her inner transformations.

A French, Vietnamese, and Tunisian artist, Liên Hoàng-Xuân weaves connections between these territories in order to imagine hybrid places. Before obtaining her DNSAP from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Beirut, Lebanon. She creates a dialogue between these cities of the “South of nowhere,” crossed by electrical cables and housing blocks, where autobiographical references intertwine with urban landscapes inhabited by mystical figures.

Franco-Moroccan, Margaux Derhy pursues a deep exploration of her origins, developing a singular artistic language through embroideries, murals, and canvases that recount her family history. Drawing from photographic archives—particularly those of her paternal family, who left Morocco in 1967—she questions what has been lost, silenced, altered, or transformed through exile, migration, and processes of assimilation. Her studio in Massa, Morocco, where she collaborates with women from the region, as well as the founding of the Cercle de l’Art in 2020—an initiative dedicated to supporting Francophone women artists—extend this commitment that is both intimate and collective.

Maternal figures, family and romantic feelings, personal trajectories, and the reclaiming of origins: these artists explore different forms of expression, mobilizing archives and memories to give rise to deeply personal works in which the intimate becomes universal.