Launch of Valentin Noujaïm's book Interzone
Saturday 28 Feb 2026 from 4pm to 6pm
Free on booking
La Librairie is hosting the French launch of the new book by French-Lebanese artist and filmmaker Valentin Noujaïm.
Edited by Mohamed Almusible and designed by Valentin Noujaïm in collaboration with graphic designer Kim Coussée, Interzone brings together a rich and sensitive collection of documentation: images from his films, analogue photographs, archives and behind-the-scenes fragments, bearing witness to the creative process and collaborative dimension of his work.
Published on the occasion of his first institutional exhibition, Panthéon, at the Kunsthalle Basel, Interzone accompanies the work La Défense Volume III - Demons to Diamonds and completes the La Défense trilogy (2022-2025).
Valentin Noujaïm is a regular at the Fondation; he was a resident of its production support programme in 2023 and one of the films in the trilogy, Pacific Club, was added to the Foundation's collection in 2024.
His practice explores forgotten or erased life trajectories and questions the complexity of power relations within society. Fuelled by his commitment to anti-racist struggles and his reflection on spatial imaginaries, his work highlights marginalised experiences that are often absent from dominant historical and national narratives.
He directed a first documentary film, Avant qu'elle oublie Héliopolis, as well as an experimental film, L'étoile bleue, supported by the Doha Film Institute and the AFAC and presented at the Visions du Réel international festival in Nyon (2020) in international competition.
His first short fiction film, Les Filles destinées, was supported by the CNC and is currently in distribution. In 2021.22, he is in residence at Artagon in Marseille and is making a new video and installation entitled the Pacific Club, supported by the Doha Film Institute and the Ile-de-France Region.
In 2022.23, he is selected for the Salon de Montrouge in Paris and the Getting Real Biennial in Los Angeles. He is also in residence at the Ateliers Médicis in Paris, at the Villa Médicis in Rome in June, and "Guest student" at the Städelschule for 3 semesters in video and installation with the Irish artist Gérard Byrne.