The CAC – la synagogue de Delme invites you to the restitution of the residency of artists Flora Citroën and Kévin Blinderman on Thursday November 30th at 6pm at the Gue(ho)st House in Delme. Free admission.

There will be a shuttle bus from Metz, departing at 5pm from Quai du Rimport, Metz. Information and bookings on 03 87 01 43 42 or info@cac-synagoguedelme.org (around 10 places available). Free admission.

The two artists will be presenting the exhibition Vers l'Est in the window of the Gue(ho)st House. Flora Citroën will also be putting on a performance entitled J'ai vu un corps, with music composed by Guillaume Herment Berrebi.

With a shared sensibility towards the world and in their lives as artists, Flora Citroën and Kévin Blinderman chose to associate their practice during their residency in Lindre-Basse. In residence in Moselle, the artists wished to invest their Jewish origins to focus on the historical potential of the Synagogue de Delme and its community, now dispersed. Through an incomplete, mostly oral, and partially written story, the artists became improvised historians in order to express a story making the link between this Jewish history in Delme and their own. By making the synagogue a fictional character – the artists’ alter-ego, sharing a Jewish past and a present shaped by contemporary creation – they intend to draw on the many lacuna inherent to the history of the synagogue not as a constraint, but as so many interstices that they can enter into, to imagine connections and stories, inspired by reality to produce new fictions that might enlighten an as yet fragile history. Between personal quest and historical interest in a heritage site with a singular fate, Flora Citroën and Kévin Blinderman experiment together with new relationships with conversation, intimacy, and the aesthetic treatment of an emotional charge.

The artist residency programme is organised by the CAC - la synagogue de Delme in collaboration with the Lorraine Regional Natural Park and the village of Lindre-Basse.

This event is organised as part of the European Days of Jewish Culture - Lorraine.