mon oeil sur terre/documentary, visual and fine arts/co-creation and cultural rights
stories made from within the neighborhoods
mOst develops participatory visual arts, documentary and place-based artistic projects with residents of working-class neighborhoods and urban peripheries, grounded in cultural rights. Through photography, film, sound, writing and participatory mapping, residents take part in producing, editing and publicly sharing their own narratives, from the Malassis housing estate to the hillsides of Comuna 8.
super 8 · medellín · les malassis · la noueJune to August 2026
2025 · rio de janeiro · brazil
viver é um luxo · os crias da tl
What if the favela were the museum? Photography and art direction workshops with the children of T.L., led with the photographer Fotogracria, a cria (born and raised in the neighborhood) from Rua 4.
2025 · bagnolet · france
disco malassis
As the concrete deck is transformed, affirming pride in belonging: outreach workshops with young people, and the memories of the seniors at Bagnolia.
2025 · medellín · colombia
el parchecito de medellín 2
Large portraits of residents, photographed and written by young people, wheatpasted all over the neighborhood.
2025 · argenteuil · france
ce qui compte, c’est toute l’histoire
A residency spanning two scales: the life stories of people who came to live in the city, and Argenteuil understood as a city made of layers.
2026 · rio de janeiro · brazil
maré analógica
Ten young people from Maré, ten ways of seeing on film, and an exhibition wheatpasted on the neighborhood’s walls.
2023 · ciudad guzmán · mexico
la calle más chingona de jalisco
“The most chingona street in Jalisco” (the coolest, in Mexican slang): about ten workshops in mapping, photography, sound interviews and video, a film and a wheatpasted exhibition in the Cruz Blanca neighborhood.
2025 · montreuil · france
le monde est à noue: rencontre rocinha
Two neighborhoods that are much talked about but rarely portrayed from the inside speak to each other directly: La Noue-Clos Français, in Montreuil, and Rocinha, in Rio.
the exhibition hall
12 rooms, 12 exhibitions: the images in large format, residents’ own words, the films.
cinemafive complete films, with sound, subtitled in four languages · enter the theater →six formats,
one method
Six formats shape our projects. They are combined according to what each neighborhood needs: a documentary can grow out of a Point de vue, a residency can feed a living archive.
point de vue
The most complete investigative workshop: looking at your own neighborhood, producing original material, building a collective story.
format8 projectsvideo documentary
A shared film, co-authored by the participants, from choosing the subject to the final edit.
format8 projectscrossing perspectives
Two working-class neighborhoods in conversation through images, sounds and stories.
format12 projectscommunity-based artistic residency
An artist’s research in dialogue with the knowledge and practices of residents.
format4 projectsquartier du turfu
Imagining the future of a place together: residents’ needs, fears, wishes and proposals.
format12 projectsliving archives
Documenting memories and changes from the inside, so that they last.
creating together, renewing forms
In community-based artistic residencies, the encounter does not come after the work. It can shift its gestures, its materials and its forms. We work in that space with artists and residents.
the toolbox
Photography, sound, video, writing, sensory mapping, fine arts: tools shared with no prerequisites, never oversimplified.
- sensory mappingdrawing a place as it is lived
- photographylearning to look, choose and take a stand
- soundlistening to voices, places and memories
- videotelling stories with moving images
- writinggiving the work a context, a voice and an audience
- fine artsdrawing, piecing together and making visible what doesn’t exist yet
the peripheries are not cultural margins: they are places of creation, memory and invention
support,
fund, collaborate
Public funders, foundations, businesses, social housing providers, museums and cultural venues: every project rests on an alliance. Here is how to build one with us.
public funders
National government, regions, départements, cities, public bodies: projects that put cultural rights into practice, alongside local organizations.
learn more →foundations, businesses, patrons
Support a program or a neighborhood over the long term, contribute equipment or skills.
learn more →social housing providers
Living somewhere is also telling its story: the memory of housing complexes, resident consultation, social ties and public presentations in your spaces.
learn more →museums, cultural centers, libraries
Co-produce a residency, host an exhibition, look after a living archive.
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