Curated exhibitions
I. “Memories Gone Wild”

Curated exhibitions
II. “Two Moons & Two Suns”

Notes
¹ The process - Since March 2021, 16 researchers and visual artists whose research subject is the relationship between the archive and the fictive have been collaborating in a group initiated by visual artist Claire Ducène.

The project, entitled “Fictive Archive Investigations”, is hybrid and collaborative, bringing together a diversity of practices, ages and backgrounds. It is all about seeing the archive as a genuine source of material for creative work.

The exhibition Memories Gone Wild, conceived by this group, is a work of fiction divided into four sections, like so many narrative spaces in which each of the works exhibited offers a personal and fictional interpretation of the archive. 

w/ Philippe Beck (BE), Elise Billiard Pisani (FR) & Margerita Pulè (MT), Giordano Bruno do Nascimento (DE & BR), Balthazar Blumberg (FR), Juan Cárdenas (CO), Alexis Choplain & Noëlie Plé (BE), Céline Cuvelier (BE), Claire Ducène (BE), Patrick Gaïaudo (FR), Cecilia Hurtado (MEX), Stéphanie Roland (BE), Agata Skupniewicz (PO), Sam Vanoverschelde (BE), Julian Walker (UK) 

Datas & Events
Group exhibition, s eries of lectures & participatory workshops, performances
27 Jan.2023 → 25 Mar.2023
ISELP, Brussels


Captions
1/ Poster of the exhibition “Memories Gone Wild”
2/ Exhibition’s views (c) JJSerol

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²  The process - Second iteration of the project, led by Claire Ducène and Margerita Pulè has been formed, following the same research interests, and also working through a collaborative and multi-disciplinary process, this time focusing on the relationship between the island, the fictional, and the archive.
The group formed a residency in Dingli, Malta in late 2024, and is now showing a group exhibition, titled Two Moons and Two Suns, at Palazzo de la Salle in Valletta.
The group of 13 artists have come together to collaborate through their artistic practice and previous work around fictive archives. Many of the artists have conducted extensive research in this area; between them, the group represents a network of subversion and questioning around archival practice that is unique in its purpose.

w/ Elise Billiard Pisani | Balthazar Blumberg | Josephine Burden | Anna Calleja | Céline Cuvelier | Katel Delia | Claire Ducène | Axel Fourmont | Bettina Hutschek | Margerita Pulè | Stéphanie Roland | Matthew Schembri | Raffaella Zammit


Datas & Events
Opening night (concert, reading & projection), Group exhibition, Symposium “Fiction(s) in archives”
3 July – 20 August 2025
Upper Galleries, Malta Society of Art, Palazzo de la Salle, Republic St, Valletta (MT)


Captions
1/ Poster of the exhibition “Two Moons & Two Suns” by 2point3
2/ (slide show) Exhibition’s views
3/  Balthazar Blumberg_Whole Story Glass engraving drawing photography projection 2024–2025
4/  Elise Billard-Pisani & Margerita Pulè_Farfara. Le fils avant le père_Mixed-media installation 2022
(c) ElisaVonBrockdorff

Alongside her artistic practice, Claire Ducène works as a curator, where archives become a medium in their own right, conveying multiple narratives and infinite forms. Her role is not only to display documents, but to reveal the creative power of archives as a language capable of forging links between the past, present and imagination.

With the exhibition ‘Dissolve and Dissolve’, presented at POELP and co-curated with Sabine Sil, Claire Ducène initiated a dialogue between artists on the ephemeral and transformation.
Rémy Hans presented a project inspired by botanists' archives, with drawings placed outdoors and exposed to the elements. The Muesli collective presented a video in which an ice core transforms into liquid under the polarising effect. These works coexisted in a poetic tension, where each moment escaped any attempt at fixation, recalling the fragility of the traces themselves.

Exhibition’s view Dissolve & Dissolve, artworks by Rémy Hans, POELP, 2025 - Curators: Claire Ducène & sabine sil (c) Antoine Fallon

This questioning continues with Fictive Archive Investigations, a collective of which Claire is the artistic director, born out of a desire to experiment with the archive as a space for fiction, research and collective creation. The project is part of a long-term process, which begins with an open call, followed by a selection of artists, monthly meetings, a collective residency and an exhibition.

To date, two editions have been produced:  Memories Gone Wild - ISELP, Brussels, January–March 2023 and Two Moons and Two Suns (Valletta, Malta, July–August 2025), co-curated with Margerita Pulè.

A third edition is currently in preparation, as well as an academic collection that will explore the contemporary potential of the fictional archive, confirming both the artistic and theoretical dimensions of this project.