Inner Landscapes Festival

June 13, 7:00 PM

This opening event explores the theme of Saudade — nostalgia, longing, and memory through music and live visual creation. 

The project reflects on music as a living archive : a way of preserving emotion, tracing memory, and transforming fleeting moments into lasting forms.

Cellist and fulbright HHW scholar Lily Stern performs original compositions by residents of the Fondation, including Dayton Hares, alongside visual artist and fulbright HHW scholar Katya Vaz. During the performance, artworks will be created live through the vibrations of the music, generating unique pieces that will remain on exhibition throughout the festival from June 13 to June 25.

Supported by the Fond initiatives résidents de la Cité internationale.

June 18, 7:00 PM

Visual artist Lia Pannetier explores the theme of vengeance through a series of painted portraits inspired by testimonies of abuse and resilience.

Developed through interviews with vulnerable individuals, the exhibition transforms personal stories into powerful visual narratives that question justice, anger, and the emotional aftermath of violence. Accompanied by a concert echoing the themes of the exhibition, the event creates a dialogue between image and sound, examining how art can give form to experiences that are often difficult to express.

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June 25, 7:00 PM

Created by concert curator, violinist, and 5th Floor Artist-in-Residence, Natalie DARST XIA, « Mosaic Bridge : Between Sight and Sound » is a multi-disciplinary concert that brings together newly-commissioned visual works, recorded spoken poetry, and renowned and lesser-known French and American violin works to create an immersive environment that draws inspiration from the Synesthesia phenomenon.

This concert seeks to discover new ways of listening from the masterpieces of the French repertoire from César Frank, Gabriel Fauré, and Olivier Messiaen, to the less-performed and evocative music of American/American influenced female composers, Amy Beach and Rebecca Clark. In a program with a key focus on individual perception, each composition is paired with a new painting created specifically for this event by three visual artists (past and present) from the Fondation des États-Unis 5th Floor Artist Residency. The unveiling of these paintings during the performance will stand as a visual representation of each artists’ response to the music. Natalie is joined by musicians who are current and past Harriet Hale Woolley Scholars and Fulbright-Harriet Hale Woolley Scholars for an evening of solo and chamber music. By contrasting the intricacies of the chosen musical program alongside the visual art works created in response to the music, this concert invites the audience to explore their relationship to sound and sight, preconception and perception.