​​A dialogue with words and images- A question of memory

Andréanne Oberson’s artistic practice engages with everyday life, which she views as a reservoir—a space from which she draws elements to highlight the ghosts of our perceptions. She also seeks to uncover the flaws in systems of language, infusing them with poetry and critique to establish new hierarchies: prioritizing language, re-evaluating temporality, and asserting the importance of storytelling.

Her work questions notions of space, time, and memory, as well as our ability to tell stories to one another. For this exhibition, she has delved into her personal archives, particularly childhood Super 8 videos, to extract fragments of memory. These delicate and ephemeral graphite drawings are interwoven with poetic text, which through reflections and sound play creates an intimate journey where buried emotions resurface in a collage of sensations and memories.

Through these fragmented visions, she explores the construction of identity and her relationship to the world, her family, time, and memory, raising questions about the nature of existence. In parallel, she presents a series of images created over the past ten years, which she pairs with poetic texts or haikus composed using the cut-up technique.

Whether intimate or collective, the works of Andréanne Oberson represent suspended moments containing narrative potential—stories in latency, ready to be activated by the viewer’s gaze or actions. Through this resonance, they generate new narratives where past, present, reality, and memory, the visible and the invisible, are intertwined.

She invite us to reflect on how we reconstruct our memories and identities, to navigate between image and language, between what is shown and what is sensed, between what remains and what fades away forever.