Autoportrait à ma grand-mère

In this two-voice sound journey, Patricia Allio begins with a deeply personal story—her relationship with her grandmother, Julienne Le Breton—to explore the complexity of cultural and emotional inheritance. Alone on stage, often addressing her “Granny” directly, she recounts this story in the first person, weaving together sound and photographic archives with her own reflections. The intimate becomes a lens through which to question the political.

The suppression of her grandmother’s native Breton language, poverty, the harshness of agricultural labour and class relations, but also the tenderness of their bond, all lie at the heart of this portrait that gradually becomes a self-portrait. Little by little, a vibrant tribute takes shape, one in which pain and loss do not prevail, but rather the joy of remembering and of continuing the dialogue. The voice of the absent woman resonates onstage, opening onto an “eternal present.”