About the project

« Près de tes paupières » is a participative and multimedia exhibition in the public space of Delémont. Our aim is to create a dialogue within the city of Delémont and its surroundings through art and poetry. Through poems, visuals and participatory workshops, our artworks are developed in co-creation with the local population. They are inspired by the diversity of public spaces, thematizing the complexity around questions of belonging and identity through personal stories and subjective images. « Près de tes paupières » invites the people of Delémont and its surroundings to take part in a creative and collective process, and to let themselves be surprised by different thoughts and images. Through this project, we hope above all to encourage collective reflection on our common links.

Exhibition «Près de tes paupières»

From 20 August to 1 September 2024, the exhibition « Près de tes paupières » will be displayed on billboards in various public places in the city of Delémont, as well as in the Galerie Paul-Bovée and on the internet.

You can find more information about the places of the exhibition in the «Places» section.
You can find further information on the exhibition in the Galerie Paul-Bovée in the «Programme» section.

Map Près de tes paupières

The map « Près des tes paupières » accompanies throughout the exhibition « Près de tes paupières ». It connects the eight locations of the exhibition in an interactive way and invites you to observe the city from a new angle and to take part in the project.

The entire route takes around 1 hour and 40 minutes on foot, and 60 minutes by bike if completed in the suggested order. Each place is associated with a question taken from the texts and images of the « Près de tes paupières » project. The route is accompanied by audio files, available via QR codes on the back of the map. The map also features spaces for taking notes on the experience, in the form of text or drawings.

In August you will be able to order the map via email:

It will also be available in the following places:
–Hôtel de ville de Delémont, Pl. de la Liberté 1, 2800 Delémont
–Galerie Paul Bovée, Rue du 23-Juin 2800, 2800 Delémont
– Jura Tourisme, c/o Théâtre du Jura, Route de Bâle 10, 2800 Delémont
–LARC, Pass. des Ponts 2, 2800 Delémont
–réception de l’Hôpital du Jura, Fbg des Capucins 30,2800 Delémont
–réception de la Résidence La Promenade, Rue de l’Hôpital 58, 2800 Delémont.

About the poems

The idea of our project comes from the poems written by Anisa Alrefaei Roomieh. Through her stories she tells us about her new home, Delémont, and about her former homeland, Syria, which she had to flee with her family. She writes about the war, but also about joyful memories of faces, smells and sounds. She shares her hopes, thoughts and dreams as a woman, poet and mother of three. Through her poems Anisa conveys her great gratitude towards Switzerland, but also speaks about the pain and loneliness she has felt.

By reading Anisa’s poems, Maeva Rubli, who initiated and supports the project, was able to discover her hometown from a new perspective that turned her concepts of identity and belonging upside down. You can hear and listen to Anisa Alrefaei Roomieh’s poems in the «Places» section.

About the co-creation workshops

For each location chosen for the exhibition, Maeva Rubli and Hanna Schiesser organized co-creation workshops inspired by the inhabitants, in which they brought together different perspectives, stories and images. They worked with institutions and inhabitants of Delémont and its surroundings. Together they explored different questions such as: Where do I feel at home? What do these places remind me of? What do I want for Delémont? What do I want to say to it? What links us together? What do we want to share within our town? The fruits of the co-creation workshops form the essence of « Près de tes paupières ».

You can find out more about the co-creation process in the «Places» section.

About the creation of the posters

Inspired by Anisa’s poems and the results of the co-creation workshops, Hanna Schiesser, a Swiss German who doesn’t live in Delémont, and Maeva, born and raised in Delémont, have created posters conveying their own questions and thoughts about the city.

The creation of the posters took place in Hanna and Maeva’s studio or in résidence. There, they transformed the material collected and immersed themselves in the creative process. The two artists mixed their personal interpretations and images with the creations made by the workshop participants, their field research and Anisa’s poems. First, they worked on a large format in Indian ink, then they integrated digital elements, which reflect the complexity and nuance of the themes of belonging and identity.

You can find out more about the creative process in the «Places» section.

About the mediation workshops

The artistic mediation of the project aims to provide tools for individual and autonomous experience, as well as encourage exchange and collective experience. The artistic mediation workshops create a link between the exhibition and the population and take place in different places in Delémont.

The activities happen on the move in the different exhibition venues. The diversity of languages and artistic tools enables the exchange between participants, as well as the discovery of other voices and perspectives. We hope to continue the process of co-creation that started with the workshops.

If you are interested in having an individual experience around the exhibition, you'll find more information in the «Map Près de tes paupières» section.
If you are interested in a workshop, you will find more information in the «Programme» section.

RU collective

We are Maeva, Hanna and Camila. We are part of the RU collective. As part of this project, we think and talk with images, colors, words and processes. Each of us uses her own voice to create links with the other members of the group, the public space of Delémont and the population of the Jura.

Maeva

Rubli

Artist, initiator and

project developer

maevarubli.com

Hanna

Schiesser

Artist, graphic designer and

coordinator

hannaschiesser.com

Camila

Lucero Allegri

Mediator

camillaluceroallegri.com

Collaboration

To set up our project, we worked in collaboration with Anisa Alrefaei Roomieh for the poems, Zoé Jeangros on communication, Melis Sututar on website programming, Shatha Zaid-Alkelani for translating poems into German and English, Amel Bouchiba for translating poems into French, Marlyse Audergon as a press agent, and Elisabeth Binotto as an intern.

Various people helped on a voluntary basis: Stefan Michel for proofreading the German poems, Annie Rutherford for proofreading the English poems, Frédéric and Chantal Burkhard for proofreading the French poems, Martine Rubli for proofreading various texts, Vanessa Hatzky and Ulrich Rubli for financial advice.

We also benefited from advice from Saskia Haas, mediator, Samantha Ramos, interjurassic youth delegate, Dominique Kaufmann, from Delémont town council, Philippe Duvanel, former artistic director of Delémont'BD and Carole Maître, assistant manager of the Théâtre du Jura.

Many thanks to everyone who took part in the project.
To the participants in the workshops at LARC: Christine Adatte, Elena Akbari, Anne-Véro Sohier, Jean-Daniel Berger, Thierry Torti and others who wished to remain anonymous, as well as the guides Caroline Amstutz and Elise Unternaehrer.
To the participants in the CAFF French language course and the accompanying teachers Flore Béran and Karen Laurent.
To the residents of the Résidence la Promenade and their supervisors, especially Fanny Aracil.
To the 10th grade students at Collège de Delémont and their teacher Nicole Voelke.
To the children who took part in Eléphantaisies 2023 and to their guides Julien Paratte and Maulde Theile.
To Anne-Marie Kolb and the students at the elementary school of Vicques and their teacher Nina Burkhard.

Sponsors

This project is generously supported by the Prix Jeunesse Jura, the Swiss Confederation, CMF - Nouveau Nous, the Integration Office of the Republic and Canton of Jura, the Loterie romande, the City of Delémont, the Canton and Republic of Jura, and the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation.

Soutenu par le crédit d'intégration de la Confédération pour la période 2023-2025.