Aubervilliers: from the 1940s to the present

After the screening of the film “Aubervilliers” by Eli Lotar, Jeu de Paume, in partnership with the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, invites you to meet historian Paul Smith, and Paloma Polo, artist in residence at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, to talk about the city, its territory, its heritage, its inhabitants and its history from the 1940s to the present.

Historian Paul Smith is interested in the industrial heritage, in that of the Great War, and in the conversion of industrial sites and buildings. He will talk about the urban heritage of Aubervilliers, including the old match factory, about which he recently published an article in the journal In Situ.

Paloma Polo will talk about her work with her research partner, historian Oscar Fernández, exploring a recent yet little-known period of French and Spanish history, bearing on the anonymous and secret struggle against Francoism. This struggle was orchestrated from the “red suburbs” of Paris by the exiled Spanish Communist Party (PCE), with the support of the French Communist Party (PCF).
Paloma Polo puts forward a number of angles of reflection by considering the attempts at inversion and the propositions that have emerged from her recent encounters and discussions with people of diverse origins, experience, profession and levels of political engagement.
Born in Madrid in 1983, the artist offers a much-needed verification and rewriting of history as method, in order to understand and to react dynamically to the present.

Event organised in collaboration with Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers in the auditorium, Tuesday 14 March at 7 pm.
Admission free, first come first served.
Information: infoauditorium@jeudepaume.org