Nuit Blanche is a big, free evening stroll through Paris to discover works, performances and venues that are sometimes opened up in a different way, on Saturday, June 6, 2026. At the Espace Frans Krajcberg, the 15th‑arrondissement’s contemporary Art & Nature center, the night takes on a calmer, more intimate mood with Elobolo molo waïpɨnaï... (That’s where I learned to love myself...), a sound project by Yuwey Henri, and Notre mots-histoires, a poetic performance by Trudruá Dorrico, to be experienced from 6 p.m. to midnight. Audiences will hear Indigenous voices, love stories, languages and histories rarely encountered on the streets of Paris.
This choice of venue is no accident, as the Espace Frans Krajcberg already carries a history rooted in memory, in landscapes, and in life. Nestled at the far end of the Montparnasse path, this discreet site is devoted to the work of Frans Krajcberg, the Brazilian artist of Polish origin who was at once a sculptor, painter and photographer. Deeply marked by the destruction of landscapes and by the relationship between humans and nature, he built a body of work that is firmly engaged with the living. The center preserves part of the works he bequeathed to the City of Paris and today continues a program that explores art, the environment and the territories.
Against that backdrop, the evening proposed for Nuit Blanche 2026 takes on a more intimate hue. Yuwey Henri’s project, a poet and activist from the Kalin’a Tɨlewuyu nation, gives voice to love stories of Indigenous people living in the city. Trudruá Dorrico’s performance, a writer and researcher belonging to the Makuxi people, extends this listening with Brazilian Indigenous poems. A simple moment to experience during the night, one that you can leave with a few words in mind and voices we don’t usually hear.
Installation.
Yuwey Henri is a talãmelonin (poetess, author), onumingadoton (thinker) and owomatodon (activist) of the Kalin'a Tɨlewuyu nation (the indigenous people of “French Guiana”) and of Franco-Brazilian descent. She serves as president of Documents d'Artistes Caraibes et Amazonies (DDACA), an organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating contemporary art from these territories. Yuwey is engaged in the struggle for the Kalin'a's future. She seeks to strengthen the preservation of the indigenous cultures of her ancestral homeland, which continue to bear the wounds of colonization. Through the thoughts she develops and names “Landguage Back,” she asserts her emancipation. Her work, denouncing government strategies historically epistemicidal, carries the hope of rediscovering oneself, of valuing oneself in one’s totality to resist systemic erasure and oblivion.
Elobolo molo waïpɨnaï… (This is where I fell in love with myself…) is a sonic project inviting anyone who lends an ear to follow the love stories of indigenous people living in urban spaces. Set to the rhythms of city noises, of the humans and non-humans who inhabit these spaces, the sounds shape the narratives to illuminate voices that have long been invisible.
Trudruá Dorrico belongs to the Makuxi people. Holding a PhD in literary theory from PUCRS, she is a writer, speaker and researcher in Indigenous literature. She was the curator of the exhibition “Nhande Marandu”: an Indigenous ethnomedia, at the Museum of Tomorrow (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022–2023). A resident of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2023, she performed a poem at the opening of the exhibition “Rêver la Terre” at Espace Frans Krajcberg. In 2024 she resides at LABVERDE (Amazonas). In 2025 she is invited curator of the 15th Ceará International Book Biennial and of the 1st Indigenous Literature Festival at the Museum of Indigenous Cultures, Ayvu Nhevaitim (FLAN) – Meeting of Indigenous Voices. Her work “Tempo de retomada” (autêntica, 2025) is the theme of Boi Caprichoso at the Parintins Festival (Amazonas).
Notre mots-histoires is a reading moment of poems from her own writing and from Brazilian Indigenous poets. “This evening I try to find the word-music, the word-story, the word-resistance, the word in its first form.”
With support from: City of Paris; Yves Rocher Foundation; Civic Service; Mr. and Mrs. Louis de Ségur de Charbonnières and ARTVERS.
With curatorship by: Capucine Boutte, Association des amis de Frans Krajcberg.
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Dates and Opening Time
On June 6, 2026
From 06:00 p.m. to 11:55 p.m.
Location
Espace Frans Krajcberg - Art & Nature contemporary art center
21 Avenue du Maine
75015 Paris 15
Access
Metro line 12 "Falguière" station
Prices
Free
Official website
www.paris.fr
