JOURNAL
06.10.25
HOW LA WATCH PARTY IS REINVENTING FASHION CULTURE
by Solveig Wilson Carrier & Capucine Hughin
Filmed during Paris SS26 Fashion Week, this project gathers voices from attendees of La Watch Party to reflect on the state of Fashion Week today. Through candid responses, we explore questions of accessibility, openness, and belonging within an industry long shaped by exclusivity.
Design in Paris feels less like a discipline and more like a language woven through galleries, showrooms, and the city itself. Paris Design Week confirmed this: from the Swedish Institute to GSL Gallery, heritage and experimentation converged, with scenography emerging as the quiet force shaping each encounter.
Montreal’s creative scene is in constant motion : restless, searching, and endlessly reshaping itself. To capture this spirit, La Dérive turned to direct voices from the community, asking artists, curators, designers, cultural workers and the public a simple but charged question: what does the Nouvelle Vague mean today?
CHERGUI unfolds as a cross-Atlantic curatorial collaboration between Dhakira Collective and La Clef Revival. Framed as a metaphor of exile, revolt, and transformation, the film series brings together moving images as a tool for community building and feminist solidarity. This is where cinema becomes both a site of encounter and a vehicle for collective memory.
Exploring Paris’ current art ecosystem, moving between blue-chip galleries and monumental institutions to examine the architectures of access that define them. Through exhibitions and atmospheres, it asks how openness is performed in Paris’s contemporary art world; and what hierarchies quietly persist beneath its public-facing grandeur.
A first encounter with the Graduate Fashion Show at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts offered an entry point into one of fashion’s most influential educational environments. The experience revealed the undercurrents that define Antwerp’s singular role in contemporary fashion culture, where pedagogy and experimentation converge.
31.05.25
GOING TO THE 78TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
by Solveig Wilson Carrier
Arriving in Cannes on the morning of the opening ceremony, this piece traces a first immersion into the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival through the lens of proximity rather than prestige. Moving through institutional rituals and behind-the-scenes realities, the narrative reflects on Cannes not as a monolith, but as a living, vibrant ecosystem .
Presented this spring, UQAM’s creative graduate exhibition offers a timely snapshot of emerging practices shaped by social, environmental, and technological change. This review considers the exhibition not only as a culmination of academic trajectories, but as a space where future cultural narratives begin to take form.
Interlude stands out as one of 2025’s most compelling works. Conceived by Rose Katembo, the video installation explores migrant identity through the lived experience of mobility; a condition that closely mirrors the artist’s own trajectory.