GULIZAR’S VOICE

The Franco-Armenian visual artist and photographer Rebecca Topakian explores mythology, fiction, and identity in Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories, an exhibition for which Palestinian novelist Karim Kattan offers a poem in Gulizar’s voice. Winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie for Le Palais des deux collines (Elyzad, 2021), he is also the author of L’Eden à l’aube (Elyzad, 2024), which further confirms the richness of his hybrid literary universe, blending orality and classical culture, realism, and the marvelous. These two long-time friends will discuss the role of poetry in their respective fields, converging on themes of erasure, ghost presences and earth, as multiple sources of fiction.

Free admission, subject to availability.