An intimate workshop to capture the stories we carry, the things that began but never ended.
We all have them: projects left mid-sentence, relationships that faded before their time, dreams that slipped away. Memories that linger like ghosts at the edges of our lives.
From a single question, artist and writer Nine d’Urso collected 240 responses, which she transformed into an installation: each answer rendered as a drawing and sealed in a vial, later expanded into the illustrated book 'Solution de continuité' (Flammarion, 2025).
In this hands-on workshop, led by Nine d’Urso, you are invited to create your own vial — a small glass bottle filled with oil and ink, holding the answer to one question: What in your life began but never reached its end?
The process is simple: reflect, write, draw, and seal.
An intimate way to reflect and retreat.
A book signing of Solution de continuité will take place at the end of the workshop.
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Trained as a researcher in philosophy, Nine d’Urso began her studies at the École Normale Supérieure before turning towards theatre and cinema, alongside developing an artistic practice.
Her visual work is structured around the concept of “solution de continuité” and the creation of ephemeral communities. The term “solution de continuité” refers to the black line on X-rays that marks the point where a bone has been broken. Where there is a fracture, one can imagine the possibility of filling it — a “solution”. Aborted projects, lost smells, childhood sounds — Nine d’Urso’s work seeks, through creation, to find ways to fill, complete, and recover what has been lost.
From this approach gradually emerges a community: surveys, questions posed to strangers, the physical participation of the viewer, and a connection to territory are all recurring elements across her projects. The stories of each person questioned meet and form a network — a specific community.
As an actress, she notably appears in Hors du Temps by Olivier Assayas, Le Paradis by Alain Cavalier, and the series George Sand by Rodolphe Tissot.
As a visual artist, in 2023 she created with Joaquim Fossi La Carte du Tendre, a participatory neo-geographical installation presented at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre, the Théâtre d’Orléans, and the Gare Saint Sauveur in Lille, and scheduled for 2026 at the MUCEM and the Musée de la Poste in Paris, as well as in numerous French railway stations in partnership with SNCF.
Her solo installation Solution de Continuité 1 was exhibited in 2023 in Paris at the Basia Embiricos gallery and was the subject of a book published in 2025 by Flammarion and Rizzoli.
