Jeanne Varaldi is a visual artist based in Paris. An urban planner by training, the territory and its buildings are at the heart of her artistic approach. Inspired by the world of construction sites and urban signage, she borrows their vocabulary and codes to create installations that invite you to wander around. Pieces of plaster, handling straps, protective tarpaulins, colored painter's tape: so many urban fragments that Jeanne Varaldi diverts, assembles and transforms, offering a playful reading of the city.

In her most recent works, she also questions urban cartography and our intimate relationship with it. The map is no longer a tool intended for simple planning or interpretation of the territory, it becomes the support of memory of its inhabitants, reveals personal stories and places the human at the heart of the city.

Jeanne also presents the first part of her Mapping Stories project, produced in partnership with the Chanakya School of Crafts in India. This foundation offers women from disadvantaged backgrounds an education and training in embroidery. A way for the artist to commit to education, while working to preserve Indian crafts and heritage. Thus, the Mapping Stories I project involved ten student volunteers to create ten silk and cotton pieces based on the plan of a place chosen by each student. The support is a fine and delicate handkerchief, which symbolizes the intimate and personal connection that each one has with the places that are dear to them. The installation is accompanied by the video testimony of the craftswomen, revealing a series of visions and personal stories of the city. For the first exhibition at Porte B., Jeanne Varaldi has imagined a customizable edition. With the Chanakya School, she had a series of fifteen pieces embroidered representing the map of Paris, on which collectors can ask the artist to intervene with one or more colored embroidery stitches.