Exhibition
Create despite the war
To testify, to resist, to survive

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Creating Despite War is an international multimedia exhibition exploring how artists continue to create in contexts marked by war, displacement, political violence and post-conflict reconstruction.

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Through a series of immersive portrait panels combining photography, texts, sound and video testimonies, the exhibition gives voice to artists who continue to create despite destruction, exile, censorship, disappearance and trauma. Painters, photographers, performers, theatre-makers, musicians and community artists from Afghanistan, Gaza, Syria, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Yemen, Ukraine, Burkina Faso and Mozambique share fragments of their journeys, artistic practices and realities.

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Rather than presenting art as separate from conflict, the exhibition explores how artistic creation becomes: a gesture of survival, a space for memory, a form of resistance, a tool for dialogue and social cohesion, and sometimes one of the last remaining spaces of humanity.

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Format

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Each portrait panel is accompanied by QR codes giving access to additional multimedia resources: video interviews, audio testimonies, geopolitical capsules, archives, artistic portfolios, and contextual materials.

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The exhibition itself is presented in French, while part of the digital and multimedia resources may also include English-language content depending on the artists and contributors involved.

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Designed as a travelling and modular exhibition, Creating Despite War can be presented in galleries, universities, cultural institutions, schools, humanitarian spaces and public venues. The exhibition seeks to create spaces for reflection and dialogue around the role of art and culture in times of crisis, war and reconstruction.

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Interested in hosting the exhibition? Contact us.​​​

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