CASA COMUM

Made from free graphic materials gathered by Rita RA across Paris between 2023 and 2025—catalogues, posters, magazines, flyers, and countless other printed traces that circulate through the city.

Between 2023 and 2024, Rita worked in an art studio in Bagnolet, in the La Noue neighbourhood, shared with artists Carolina E. Santo, Djamel Tatem, and Jean-François H. La Noue, a district on the city’s outer edge, is known for its social diversity and for the presence of communities living in fragile circumstances. From social centres to cultural institutions (Palais de Tokyo, Centre 104, Centre Pompidou), from theatres to small restaurants, Rita collected these free paper fragments—images and words abandoned to public circulation.

At the same time, she lived and worked at 69 rue Sainte-Anne, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, between 2023 and 2024. She shared her daily life with the Turquin family and worked as a freelance designer for Artcento, an art-market communication agency located in the same building.

Artcento collaborates with galleries and auction houses such as Galerie Turquin, Drouot, Gros & Delettrez, Pescheteau-Badin, Ader. Immersed in this world, Rita gathered another constellation of printed matter—catalogues, magazines, auction materials—each carrying its own coded language of value and rarity.

Bringing together these two visual universes—one born from the margins, the other from the inner sanctums of the art market—creates a space to reflect on the fractures that divide the centre of the city from its outskirts. The labour, the lives, the invisible production that sustain the city often exist in its shadows, outside its gaze, working at hours the centre never sees.

This project seeks to elevate the outskirts to the same visibility and dignity as the centre, composing a vast collaborative collage-scenography. This work will be offered to the Association La Maison du Canal, in the 10th arrondissement — La Gange — to be used as a living scenography for its events and live music performances, returning these collected fragments to the communities that inspired them.

Laetitia Ikni, Lars Karbø, Leal Pereira, Léandre Path-Laplagne, Liv Path-Laplagne, Lobke Peeters, Louise Renaudin, Luciene Gomes da Silva, Luísa  Malta Romeiras, Luna Isaias, Madalena Meneses, Maria Carvalho, Maria Norton, Margarida Moreira, Martha Tavares, Maylis Fritz, Mercedes Castro Corbat, Noémie Kempf, Olga Mironenko, Patrícia Mégre Potes, Paula Velhinho, Pedro Rebelo de Andrade, Pilar Duarte Silva, Prosenjit Gihosh, Raphaël Branco, Rita Ansone, Rita Pierre, Rodrigo Barreiros Ferreira, Rodrigo Vaz Pinto, Ruth de Peroy, Sabine Santana, Samuel Path, Saurabh Narang, Sebnem Erener, Sílvia dos Santos, Simon Haberfellner, Sue-Li Tasker Yeo, Teresa Blanco, Tinka van trier, Tomás Rebelo de Andrade, Tuuli Utriainen, Wawi, Venina Ascenso da Cunha