Jusque dans nos lits

Lucile Saada Choquet BE
  • 17h30
  • 17h30
Informations
  • Duration 3h
  • All ages
  • Continous - the audience may enter and exit at any time
  • In French
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Salle de la Colombière
Rue de la Colombière 18
Nyon

  • Accessible to people with reduced mobility
  • Accessible to the visually impaired
This performance is not audio-described, but it is accessible to blind and visually impaired people. A tactile visit takes place 1 hour before each performance. Please register in advance with the ticket office: billetterie@far-nyon.ch | +41 78 967 09 19 Wheelchair access: Please contact the ticket office in advance to arrange specific support (there is a 12 cm step).

“When discrimination follows us even into our beds.” From this idea emerges Lucile Saada Choquet’s performative installation, which transforms the bed into a space for politics, dialogue and healing. Inside a wooden structure surrounded by translucent curtains, the artist invites racialised individuals – perceived as Black, Arab, Amazigh, Latina, Asian or mixed-race – to lie down beside her. One by one, they engage in intimate, one-to-one conversations with the artist about their relationships with beds, bodies and their heritage, in a safe space designed to liberate speech. At the crossroads of activism and art, Saada Choquet uses intimacy to reveal silenced experiences and the often-hidden violence of social realities. Each conversation becomes a blow against silencing processes and the power dynamics between those who are used to speaking and those who have been taught to remain quiet. By politicising the private realm, Jusque dans nos lits (Even in Our Beds) challenges dominant cultural narratives and attempts to open space, however symbolic, for racial and social justice within the confines of the bedroom.

“As a Black woman who was adopted, I need to dismantle my own racism. These feelings concern us all; they act as a lens through which to perceive our collective imagination, in motion.”
— Lucile Saada Choquet

  • A bed surrounded by transparent curtains is outside in a grassy area. People can be seen inside. The curtains are billowing in the wind. The weather is very nice. A sound system broadcasts what is happening inside the structure. Two people are listening while sitting on chairs.
    ©Clio Garcia
  • In a theater room, there is an elevated bed bathed in light. The rest of the room is in darkness. The bed is surrounded by curtains. Lucile Saada Choquet is in the bed.
    @SOKL
  • Interview de Lucile Saada Choquet à propos de Jusque dans nos lits.

concept, performance Lucile Saada Choquet dramaturgy Petra Van Brabandt scenography Aria Ann costumes Pierre Antoine Vettorello technical direction, stage management Inès Isimbi support, development, production, touring Habemus papam – Cora-Line Lefèvre, Rosine Louviaux, Alix Maraval, Apolline Paquet with the support of Café Congo Bruxelles presented and supported within the REM – European Residencies in Motion network – a collaboration between Balsamine (Schaerbeek/Belgium), Grütli (Geneva/Switzerland), Théâtre de Poche (Hédé-Bazouges/France) support La Chaufferie – Acte 1, La Bellone, Mons/Mars and Le Rideau de Bruxelles with the help of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Department for Artistic Creation, Wallonie Bruxelles International. Lucile Saada Choquet’s projects are produced under the administrative umbrella of Habemus papam.

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