This exhibition began with a simple yet increasingly rare desire: to restore to storytelling a place that is neither that of information nor that of spectacle. In an age when stories circulate as a stream—data, images, fleeting content that is quickly consumed and forgotten—*An Open Page* proposes a different way of telling: slower, more porous, more welcoming.
To tell, here, does not mean to explain or demonstrate. It is rather a matter of allowing a story to settle, of creating a space where something can be conveyed without being fully resolved. This approach finds a particular resonance in the thought of Walter Benjamin, when he distinguishes information — immediate, closed in on itself — from narrative, which never gives itself up entirely and continues to act upon those who listen to it. The narrative does not impose a meaning: it opens up a duration, it allows the return, the drift, the imaginary.