Conceived as part of a solo exhibition of the same name at the Crosnier Hall of the Palais de l’Athénée in Geneva, the video explores a moment of radical rupture in the life of the narrator-artist: the “administrative earthquake” of deportation. It is both an intimate and universal experience, lived in an almost schizophrenic way — caught between the bureaucratic struggle to remain and the inner mourning of a patiently built life in a beloved city, with its places, memories, and relationships.

The video unfolds on two distinct levels that do not directly illustrate one another: the voice-over and the long sequence shots filmed in Geneva. From this juxtaposition emerges a non-linear narration, where words accompany the image while opening a parallel mental space — a way of telling exile through the language of dreams. The exhibition took place only a few weeks after the artist’s forced departure, lending greater emotional weight to the voice-over that inhabits the space in the absence of its author.