With République, photographer Bérangère Fromont captures youth and resilience on the Place de la République in Paris. It highlights a generation that navigates between history, politics and everyday life, and illustrates the duality of a place of revolts, demonstrations, but also calm and passive resistance.
On the fringes of processions, speeches and other forms of direct resistance, the artist observes another way of inhabiting the square. Skaters, in particular, embody another type of resistance, more diffuse. By appropriating urban space and diverting the elements that compose it, they give it another face, infiltrate interstices, invent new uses.
Bérangère Fromont offers a visual reflection on multiple ways of being in the world. It explores the presence of the body in space, light and the relationship of the individual to his environment. Place de la République appears as the fragmented portrait of a city that navigates between revolt and peace.
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The exhibition will open on Friday, September 18, 2026, during an inauguration evening open to the public.
at 6:30 PM – presentation of the exhibition by the artist and Anne Lacoste, director of the Institute for Photography
at 7 PM – Quiet brouhaha, sound performance by Maycec This piece takes as its starting point the Place de la République in Paris, a space full of social memory, where the apparent calm still contains the echo of crowds, conflicts and speeches.
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Practical information
Théâtre du Nord
4 General de Gaulle Square, Lille
theatredunord.fr
↘︎ Tuesday-Friday: 12H30 → 19H
↘︎ Saturday: 2 PM → 7 PM
↘︎ Closed on Sundays, Mondays, and holidays (excluding performances)
↘︎ Free entry
↘︎ Exhibition accessible to people with reduced mobility