6. – 10. Mai 2026
We are made of memory, but memory itself is a fictionÂ
The exhibition Self Storage investigates how individuals construct identity through personal and intimate recollections, as well as through the technical and social systems that shape their traces. Memory is not an objective recording: it is an assemblage, a selective construction built from both forgetting and persistence. A memory emerges within a space shaped by desire, loss, and reconstruction. Self Storage foregrounds this subjective and unstable dimension of remembering. Diaries, family archives, obsolete technologies, and bodily reminiscences become raw materials to examine the materiality of memory and its capacity for reinvention.
Hard drives, clouds, online profi les, and social networks are gradually replacing notebooks and photo albums. This massive externalization questions the boundary between private memory and public exposure, between lived traces and standardized data. Self Storage extends this inquiry into a contemporary era where identity is stored, outsourced, and endlessly duplicated. Through the works assembled, the exhibition off ers a poetic and critical drift between real and invented memory, intimate and externalized. It prompts us to consider: What do we need to retain? What do we choose to forget? And what becomes of the âselfâ when it is reduced to archives, content, and imprints?
curation : Nicolas de Chérisey & Philippine de Salaberry in collaboration with Ellia gallery
participating artists:
JoĂ«l Andrianomearisoa, Maxime Antony, Marcella BarcelĂł, Aram Bartholl, Federica Belli, Matthias Bitzer, Borgial, Victor Boyer, AmĂ©lie Caussade, SalomĂ© Chatriot, Coucou BĂ©bĂ©, Nick Coutsier, Fleur Cozic, Paul CrĂ©ange, Corentin DarrĂ©, Oli Epp, LĂ©onor Fini, Nan Goldin, Gregor Hildebrandt, Ryoji Ikeda, Victoire InchauspĂ©, ĂloĂŻse Labarbe-Lafon, Octave Lauret, Louis Lekien, InĂšs Longevial, Keegan Luttrell, Shiva Lynn Burgos, Matisse Mesnil, Sabine Mirlesse, Polina Osipova, Louise des Places, JosĂ©phine de Rohan-Chabot, Philippine de Salaberry, Tehotu, Egon Thuile, Thu-Van Tran, Louis Verret, Francesco Vezzoli, Rose Vidal, Xolo Cuintle, Kai Yoda, Yugnat999.