Missing Stories

Jeu de Paume is organising a screening of Laura Henno’s film Missing Stories followed by a round table with the artist and Pascal Beausse, curator of the photography collection at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques.

From 11:00 to 18:00, continuous projection of Missing Stories (2014, 20’, colour, sound), commissioned from Laura Henno by the Centre National des Arts Plastiques.

Young migrants, assembling in a featureless territory between sea and desert, together re-enact their arrival in France. Fragments of life come together and sketch out a common narrative, the “generic” one that is sold to them by the human smugglers. What is unspoken and what remains secret weighs on these youngsters, since the story that is presented to the institution is decisive for their hopes of staying. Fiction can thus become a survival strategy.

Missing Stories is the first film by photographer Laura Henno. Since 2011 the artist became interested in the young illegal immigrants who were arriving in France without their families. In cooperation with the Maison de l’Enfance et de la Famille Métropole Lille, which works with these immigrant children, she met a number of these minors and followed the events in the months following their arrival.

18:00–19:00, discussion with Laura Henno and Pascal Beausse.

Born in 1976, Laura Henno lives and works in Lille. After graduating in fine arts from Université de Lille III, she went on to study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre in Brussels (photography section) and then at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and she also works with the Qubo Gas collective.

Auditorium, Friday 31 October, 11:00. Admission free, subject to capacity. Information: infoauditorium@jeudepaume.org