Conceived with the artists Mehdi Meklat and Badroudine Saïd Abdallah, this programme runs from 4 to 22 November. It continuously presents an installation bringing together the video performances of Bouchra Khalili, Sara Sadik and Redacted Cut, along with the intimate podcast by Mehdi Ahoudig. In parallel, the author Jane Sautière is installed in residence to question the public on the meaning of success.
Born in 1992, Mehdi Meklat and Badroudine Saïd Abdallah are artists. They have been writing together since high school, inventing a common language, from reportage (Quand il a fallu partir, ARTE, 2015 and Demain le feu, 2020) to the novel, by way of cinema (Les uns contre les autres, 2025). Since 2021, they have also brought to life the artistic programme of Les Chichas de la pensée. Their first two novels, Burn out and Minute, were published by Éditions du Seuil. Their third novel, Jeune et ambitieux, has just been published by Éditions Tumulte.
Programme en continu
Brûle mes lettres – Installation and collective listening to the podcast Brûle mes lettres
Love letters written by a woman to her youth love... Words forgotten then rediscovered, several years later, by their son, Mehdi. With Brûle mes lettres (2026), documentary maker Mehdi Ahoudig exposes fragments of his family history, in a podcast produced and broadcast by Arte Radio. For the first time, the broadcast of the documentary is accompanied by the display of his parents' letters, like a direct plunge into an intimate and family memory.
Khtobtogone de Sara Sadik, 2021
A strange world, between video game and self-narrative. With Khtobtogone (2021), Sara Sadik imagines a crossing where desire, identity and popular culture intermingle. A video to watch as one enters another world: that of the imaginaries and dreams of a generation.
Speeches – Chapter 1 by Bouchra Khalili
In Mother Tongue (2012), the protagonists recite passages of political, literary or poetic texts by Aimé Césaire, Abdelkrim Al Khattabi, Malcolm X, Mahmoud Darwish, Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau. They say them from memory, facing the camera, in their mother tongues (Moroccan Arabic, Dari, Kabyle, Malinké and Wolof). The people involved were found, explains Bouchra Khalili, through a mix of research and chance encounters, without casting, simply because they wanted to take part in the film. This questions the status of films (and of those who take part in them), somewhere between performance, documentary revelation and collaboration.
RNG Vol.1 et Vol.2 de Redacted Cut
Love, money, success... For fifteen minutes, a series of TikTok videos, made and edited by the artist Redacted Cut, invite ordinary, twisted, obsessive stories to the Bpi. Stories of tiny lives sublimated by these internet images, between confidences, humour, loneliness and dreams of greatness.
C'est quoi réussir ? – Résidence de Jane Sautière
Throughout this exceptional programme, the writer Jane Sautière is installed at the Bpi and asks readers, visitors and passers-by: « C'est quoi réussir sa vie ? » A simple, dizzying question, to which each person can respond with their own story, their renunciations or their desires.
Phrases lues par Lyna Khoudri
Three to five times a day during the day on Sunday 22 November, the voice of actress Lyna Khoudri emerges in the library's spaces and whispers to you sentences around the notion of “ Vies minuscules ”. From Annie Ernaux to Mafia K'1 Fry, these short texts, imagined as breaths, will be broadcast amid the library's usual announcements.
Meetings and workshops are also scheduled throughout the period: opening evening, screening with director Claire Simon, fanzine writing workshop: find out more!