Paris
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Chaze — Sndtrk1: A Graffiti Archive
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome books begin with a discovery. Forgotten negatives, found by chance, bringing back fragments of a life once lived. For Chaze, this moment marked the return of more than thirty years spent inside graffiti: an art form as marginal as it is deeply rooted in personal and collective memory. Through Sndtrk1, Chaze revisits his journey […]
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Board Culture Expo — Images, Roads & Stories
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBetween photography, publishing, and board culture, some projects build bridges across scenes and geographies. Board Culture Exposure is one of them: connecting artists, images, and communities through a shared visual language. Linking the upcoming festival in Biarritz with a moment in Paris, this event offers a glimpse into that universe. Through books, film, and photography, […]
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Orléans by Names — City Traces
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceTraces of a forgotten scene often survive where no one is looking — in shoeboxes, private albums, and analogue negatives left untouched for decades. This project returns to the graffiti culture of Orléans, reconstructing fragments of a local movement shaped in the shadow of Paris, yet rooted in its own territory. Built from personal archives […]
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Holeg Spies – Echos des Origines
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceWhat if listening were humanity's founding gesture? In Echos des Origines, published by Signal Zéro, composer and sound researcher Holeg Spies traces an unbroken line from the resonant caves of the Paleolithic to the bass-driven warehouses of 1990s rave culture. He proposes what he calls écophonisme — an understanding of sound as a living organism […]
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Yuki + Moresk — On Living Systems
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome projects begin as personal attempts to step outside existing systems, others as ways of rethinking them from within. This evening brings together two independent practices that question how we live, organise time, and define autonomy. L’antimanuel : La Cafardise stems from a year spent exploring life outside monetary structures. Through analogue photography and lived […]
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NOT FAR FROM HERE — Mapping Skate Culture
In skateboarding, cities are never fixed surfaces. They are constantly rewritten through movement, repetition, and shared use. What emerges is an evolving map made of gestures, routes, and collective memory. For more than ten years, photographer and filmmaker Enrico Cerovac has followed this invisible geography across cities around the world. Shot on 35mm film between […]
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Through the Lens of Hip-Hop: Maï Lucas Signing Session
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome photographic archives do more than document a scene—they enter it while it is still being formed. All Eyes On Me by Maï Lucas traces New York between 1990 and 2010, capturing a moment when hip-hop culture was still local, embodied, and self-defined. From Harlem to the Bronx, her images follow a generation reshaping identity, […]
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The City in Motion: Paris Ride Out
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBeyond its monuments and boulevards, Paris is also a city of riders, gathering spots and improvised routes. TARSTREETSPORTS: Paris Ride Out captures one of those moments when movement becomes a way of inhabiting the city. Set in a hidden Paris location, the zine documents an evening where riders, DJs and spectators came together, transforming an […]
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Cut, Drawn, Printed — Flask × catcentcat
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceLe Grand Jeu hosts the launch of a collaboration between two Parisian practices that meet on cloth: the drawing of writer Flask — shaped by the most radical years of graffiti, from the metros to the tunnels — and the eye and press of catcentcat, analog photographer seen in the docuseries With One Eye Open […]
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Thierry Maignan – Negroïde City
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn Paris, some presences are constant yet rarely centered — visible in everyday life, but still pushed to the margins of dominant narratives. Negroïde City begins from this tension. Through a series of black-and-white photographs, Thierry Maignan traces a lived city shaped by bodies, gestures, and movements that quietly redefine its landscape. Both intimate and […]
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TEK — Techno, Trance & Dance Music’s Hidden History
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceTEK — Une Histoire de la Techno is a traverse through the history of electronic dance music, spanning from the early experiments of the Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète in the 1950s through psytrance, jungle and the free party movement. Electronic music is everywhere now — in adverts, concert halls, supermarkets, woven into rock, […]
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Before It Dries While It Lasts — Writing, Water & Disappearance
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBefore It Dries While It Lasts is an experiment in writing as a temporary act — stripped of its usual claim to permanence. Working with water, Edoardo Baraggioli creates wall interventions that evaporate over time, questioning mark-making, duration and disappearance within the field of graffiti. For this evening at Le Grand Jeu, Edoardo will present […]