CAC Brétigny

Livre Ouvert: Récits en fantômes
Thematic Space by Janna Zhiri

Curated by: Marion Vasseur Raluy
In partnership with the Salon du livre de jeunesse

▲ At the Espace Olympe-de-Gouges, Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon
09.05—15.05.2026

          For the Children's Book Fair, Janna Zhiri has created, in partnership with the art centre CAC Brétigny, an installation open to imagination and the poetic through a series of suspended drawings.

          With support from CAC Brétigny, the artist Janna Zhiri offers a space to read and rest, fertile ground for the invention of absurd stories and chimerical yarns. She draws inspiration from literature, from tales of friendship and love and from illness in order to invent stories that she transforms into drawings, where everything mixes into scenery, into immersive installation. She offers visitors the opportunity to wander through her work and recompose the story they want to see.

Janna Zhiri just completed the artist-researcher programme at the École Supérieur de Clermont Métropole’s Research Cooperative, presenting her extravagant installations: the CHU-Brouillon, a cabaret that explores illness within artistic practice, or PERMANENCE, a space for experimentation and artistic imbalances within a secondary school. Her stories, her set designs are aids for telling, declaring, entertaining that combine conviction, humour and rough, caustic and disillusioned traits; the narrative world becomes subject to digression in a call for revolution that comes from the heart. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at DOC (Paris), Fondation Francès (Paris), MAC (Lyon), 100% Villette (Paris), Salon de Montrouge, and elsewhere.