According to writer and director of the Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration Constance Rivière, “Art is xenophilic by essence.” Does this shared essence come from the will to search for beauty? From the actual fulfilling of the artistic gesture? How can an individual’s creation move and nourish those who come and watch it? Many questions come with considering the shores of art as a land of exile and the artist as responsible for sharing its effects. Our Lettres, terres d’asile session gathers three artists with diverse and rich careers: Senegalese musician, composer, and director Wasis Diop, whose universe is as jazzy as it is free, sociétaire Serge Bagdassarian, a roving artist whose family history was marked by exile, and sociétaire Bakary Sangaré, whose acting was revealed by Peter Brook’s Mahabharata. Their group, completed by Constance Rivière, is set to share the many layers which make up our common matter.

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