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 Almusibli and designed by Valentin Noujaïm in collaboration with graphic designer Kim Coussée, with text by Perwana Nazif, 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.
His practice explores contemporary forms of political, social and architectural collapse, and their intimate resonances. Through film and installation, he develops hybrid devices combining fiction, documentary and archives.
He is the author of the trilogy La Défense (Pacific Club, 2022; To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion, 2024; Demons to Diamonds, 2025), presented at MoMA (US), CPH:DOX (DK), IFFR (NL), the Centre Pompidou (FR), the National Gallery of Art (US), the ICA London (UK) and the Kunsthalle Basel (CH), where he presented his first institutional solo exhibition in 2025.
His works have also been shown at the Istanbul Biennial (TR), the Fondation Cartier (FR), Visions du Réel (CH), the Thessaloniki Biennial (GR) and DocLisboa (PT). His works are included in public and private collections, including the CNAP (FR), the FRAC Bretagne (FR) and Lafayette Anticipations (FR).