For several years, Carla Adra has been gathering intimate testimonies and giving them voice through her performances. These voices, fragile because they are bound to the ephemerality of performance, now raise the question of their afterlife—of what remains once the action has ended.

Her residency with galerie art & essai + EUR CAPS at the University of Rennes 2 focuses on this already existing material. The intention is not to collect new voices, but to explore those that have already been entrusted to her: how to sort them, classify them, move them, let them circulate. How to care for them? This research draws on meetings with scholars in anthropology, sociology, and archival studies, whose methods will both inform and challenge her artistic approach. To move forward, she employs various techniques—maps, photographs—tools that make it possible to test different paths, to discover provisional forms of classification, and to open up new ways of inhabiting the archive.

Throughout the residency, Carla searches for the most fitting artistic form to host this library of sensitive voices.