Of Armenian origin, Marie Zolamian was born in Beirut and came to Belgium in 1990, the year she turned 15. In her work, , she mixes her memories and her present, East and West, all with great sensitivity . She works on exile – the first suffered, the others (New York, Istanbul, Naples…) chosen – and on the absences it provokes: forgetting and uprooting. But she also talks about the reconstruction of oneself in a new, hybrid environment, with a new language, a new culture and the recovery or reinvention of collective memory . To do this, Marie Zolamian creates the stories that are missing. She makes her own whatever she finds in her surroundings: old photos, forgotten sculptures or children’s stories. SPACE has acquired one of the drawings in the Intérieurs series. In this piece, the choice of surface is as important as the motif, the old paper from an old book or notebook. The floral motifs, almost arabesques, are reminiscent of faded wallpaper. On this support, she sketches the different rooms of a house, reconstructing a place from the past, lost or forgotten, but which can be filled with a thousand stories. (Genaro Marcos)