2025 – Museum of African, Oceanic and Native American Arts

Co-creation with the CHAD class of the Ballet de Marseille
By invitation from the Museums of Marseille

Invited by the MAAOA, the artist led a creation workshop with the children of the class CHAD of the Ballet de Marseille from the collections dedicated to Vanuatu.

Conceived as a space for collective experimentation, the project mobilized different practices — drawing, writing, staging and shooting—in order to create a short film. From the objects and masks kept in the museum, the children were invited to imagine the daily life of children living in this Pacific archipelago.

The project thus sought to create sensitive bridges between the museum and this territory of the South Pacific, while addressing the geographical and environmental realities of Vanuatu, located on a tectonic plate and exposed to volcanoes, to cyclones, tsunamis and rising waters related to climate change.

From this immersion was born the scenario of the film: a cyclone crosses the museum, disrupts the order of the rooms and awakens the spirits of masks nor Vanuatu.

For a week, the museum thus became a space of experimentation and creation, where the imagination of children came to activate the collections and create a proximity with the children of these islands. Through this collective fiction, the idea of a deeply interdependent world emerged—where the realities experienced on these Pacific islands resonate with our own, reminding us, like a butterfly effect, how territories and lives are linked in the face of climate change.