Marie Zolamian

nous partout (we everywhere) is a cycle of thirteen oil paintings on linen canvas.

Each painting results from the encounter between a single family portrait and thirteen different settings, taken from other black-and-white photographs from the 1960s and 1970s. The family group – a triangular composition of four children clustered around an adult woman (mother or grandmother) – remains immobile across the thirteen scenes.
The figures seem unchanging (only the colour of their clothes varies). Yet beneath their apparent indifference to the places where they appear, a slow shift emerges: they seem less like creatures of these settings than their creators. A process of continual re-formation and mutual deformation unfolds between content and container.
nous partout becomes the symbol of a hybrid identity: the crystallization of a cultural mix, the search for a lost family network, and the reconstruction of a lineage from fragile, seemingly valueless fragments.