DELTA - The Stories That Shape Us

through  The Stories That Shape Us , Ludivine Large-Bessette initiates a collaborative exploration of our memories and the ways we share them.

The artist sought to reflect on the stories that serve as our guides and sources of support in daily life—those that help us persevere and enable us to grow. To this end, she collaborated with young people from the Lille region, students from the University of Valenciennes, and residents of the Les Bateliers nursing home at the Lille University Hospital. Through conversation and the sharing of personal stories, the group realized that what consistently emerges, time and again, are stories of friendship.

through the personal stories she collects, Ludivine Large-Bessette uncovers formative narratives that are of paramount importance on an individual level. In our society, these stories that shape who we are are not usually celebrated as achievements. Perhaps we view friendship as an insignificant relationship because, through our adult eyes, it seems unproductive.

So, as if to restore significance to what we all too often overlook, the artist brings these memories out of the confines that diminish their impact.
Together with the people who agreed to open up to her, she envisions staged scenes. These genre scenes become historical scenes. Here, they are even transformed into an abbey triptych: gigantic, choreographed photographs, displayed for all to see, take on a new power. And much like a stained-glass window that we must decipher, the images are accompanied by an audio narration that serves as a key to understanding them. The recorded stories they then reveal new interpretations and make room for the extraordinary unfolding within our everyday lives.

The final presentation of this project, in the form of an outdoor photographic installation, was unveiled in front of the Les Bateliers nursing home before being exhibited at the H du Siège starting March 28, 2025, and then at the CRP starting May 31, 2025.