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Mémoire de l’Avenir
A non-political, non-religious organisation guided by its ethical charter,
using arts and culture as tools for dialogue and understanding.
ARS NATURA
Organic Metaphors
Victoria Alexander · Béatrice Machet
Suki Valentine · Michal Vittels
March 27 – April 26, 2026
OPENING
MARCH 27, 2026
PRESS — 12:30 PM
PUBLIC — 6:30–9:00 PM
FILM SCREENING — 8:00 PM
©Art orienté objet (Laval-Jeantet & Mangin), Cultures de peaux d’artistes (détail), 1996
www.plastik.univ-paris1.fr
PRESENTATION
March 27 – April 26, 2026
Mémoire de l’Avenir – Humanities, Arts and Society
will host an exhibition event
ARS NATURA – Oranic Metaphors
“The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable:
through the embrace of one of its beings.” — Martin Buber
In response to contemporary urgencies
— otherness, ecological fragility, systemic violence, solitude,
and changing forms of coexistence—
artists do not offer solutions,
but forms of attentions.
Nature is never decorative or idealised.
It emerges as a relational force, a field of interdependencies
where bodies, histories, affects, and environments intersect.
Organic, vegetal, and hybrid forms
become carriers of memories and projection,
revealing how the past inhabits the present
and shapes future imagenations.
Ars Naturae – Organic Metaphors
invites us to slow down,
to listen to what flows between forms,
bodies, and silences,
and to inhabit a space
where art becomes
breath, memory, and transformation—
reminding us that all life is interconnected.
FREE
admission
OPENING
27 03 2026
PRESS
12H30
PUBLIC
6H30PM-9PM
PERFORMANCE
8PM
GALLERY VISITS
Thursday – Saturday
13AM-7PM
OR
BY APPOINTMENT
OFFER
Group visites
for adults or youth
&
Students
also available via
Pass Culture
here
CURATORSHIP
Margalit Berriet, Founding Director of Mémoire de l’Avenir
with Helen Margaret Giovanello, Research – Artist
THE ARTISTS
ARS NATURAE | ORGANIC METAPHORS
brings together artists from diverse cultural and geographical backgrounds,
working in close contact with contrasting natural and human environments.
From subjective positions, they observe, question,
and translate the world through sensitive, metaphorical, and critical forms.
Conceived as a laboratory of intentional encounters,
the project creates a space where distinct artistic voices
resonate without dissolving—opening new ways of seeing, thinking, and connecting.
VICTORIA ALEXANDER
in the rain © Victoria Alexander
In 2017, Victoria Alexander received the Cathy Acker Award for her contributions to the avant-garde arts community. She continues to exhibit internationally across the United States, Canada, Europe, and the United Kingdom.
A multidisciplinary artist, she works across a range of media. Her deeply symbolic practice unfolds like a visual diary, drawing on everyday experience, memory, and meaning.
Her work emerges from fleeting moments charged with quiet intensity. Through shifts in scale, she reveals the poetry of the almost unseen. In the Rain captures a ruby-throated hummingbird drawn to a weigela, inspired by the fragile dance of these birds among flowers on a warm, rain-softened day.
Her artistic path is self-taught. Alongside her professional work as a philosophy teacher, she began taking drawing classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in Caen. Over two consecutive years (1995–96), she was introduced to India ink—the medium favoured by the instructor—and continued to develop this practice independently.
he has a strong preference for working in series, developing a chosen motif through multiple variations until it is fully “exhausted.”
Her practice frequently involves large formats. She generally begins on a small scale before expanding into painting, with scale reflecting an approach to space linked to movement and verticality.
BÉATRICE MACHET
Rose de Celan © Beatrice Machet
SUKI VALENTINE
Vena Cavity © Suki Valentine
Born in the North Bronx into a family of artists, clairvoyants, and political dissidents, their work explores difficulty, in-between spaces, and the choices we make to conceal or reveal.
Rooted in traditions of struggle narratives—from the Fool’s journey in the Tarot to Campbell’s Hero’s Journey—their practice draws on mysticism, botany, death, and the tension between attraction and repulsion.
Through this lens, the work reflects on human vulnerability, contradiction, and the fragile potential for both harm and transformation.
“It takes but one word misspoken- one misremembered stereotype- to make Bitches of us all.”
born in Israel and lives in a small agricultural village in the north of the country. Trained as an architect, she turned to painting as her primary form of expression.
For over five decades, she has painted anonymous figures—frontal, attentive, and inward-looking—set within intensely coloured spaces that evoke a quiet sense of solitude.
Her practice unfolds as an ongoing map of self-exploration, driven by a continual search to understand something within herself that remains undefined.
MICHAL VITTELS
sitting woman © Michal Vittels
EVENING EVENT
March 27 2026
8:00 PM
BECCA STABILE
SPLAINS IT ALL —a solo drag show 20′
A performer and comedian presenting Bobby McMan ’Splains It All, a solo drag show blending comedy and physical theatre.
Through the character of Bobby—confident, clueless, and earnestly misguided—the performance humorously explores gender dynamics and failed attempts at respect.
Becca Stabile is a writer, actor, clown, musician, and theatre teacher trained in ensemble-based physical theatre at Dell’Arte International.
She has performed, devised, and taught across theatre and film in New York and beyond, working with both adults and children.
Her practice spans comedy, social justice theatre, and clowning, including work with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC and children’s hospitals.
NOCTURNE
April 21 2026
Doors open 7:00 PM
PROGRAMMES
7:30 PM – Constance Chlore & Rosie not Rosie
Women of Absolute Radiance | 45 min
Pause – 15 min
8:30 PM – Becca Stabile – Solo Drag Queen
SPLAINS IT ALL | 1h
Beacon Women of the Absolute | 45 min
An exploration of women as beacons:
Ophelia, Adrienne Rich, Gertrude Stein, Maya Angelou, Eurydice,
Lou Andreas-Salomé, Monique Wittig, Mina Loy, Marilyn…
Interpreted, performed, read, sung. …
Constance Chlore
is a poet and novelist born in Brussels and based in Paris. She is the recipient of the Yvan Goll International Francophone Poetry Prize for Atomium and the 2025 Saint-Denys-Garneau International Artist’s Book Prize. Her work moves between poetry, performance, and visual experimentation.
Rosie not Rosie
a singer-songwriter and lead vocalist of the pop-rock band of the same name.
She performs on electro-acoustic stages and composes music for readings and live performances, including projects with writer Constance Chlore and the collective Les Paupières descendaient l’escalier, which she co-founded.
Les Paupières descendaient l’escalier
The collective Les Paupières descendaient l’escalier performs and records short poetic capsules, sharing poems and prose that set their eyelashes fluttering—intimate works blending voice, text, and sound.
SPLAINS IT ALL | Comedy / Physical Theatre – 1H
Bobby McMan ‘Splains It All
is a solo drag show in which Bobby, confident but clueless, tries to teach men how to treat women with respect—often missing the mark.
His silly mustache and earnestness make for a humorous and heartfelt performance. The show runs approximately one hour and can be adapted if needed.
Becca Stabile
is a writer, actor, clown, musician, and theatre teacher trained in ensemble-based physical theatre at Dell’Arte International.
She has performed, devised, and taught theatre and film projects in NYC and beyond, including social-justice shows with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, and clown work in children’s hospitals.