This Too Is Paris
(Limbo 93)
This Too is Paris (Limbo 93) is a multidisciplinary project that combines photography, poetry, documentary filmmaking, and sound art. The project is a personal attempt to represent suburban life and a state that I, along with many other people who live here—predominantly immigrants—find ourselves in: the state of permanent liminality, cultural, socio-economic, and geographical limbo
THis too is PAris: Part 1 (Limbo 93)
ABOUT THE PROJECT
What is this Limbo?
“Limbo 93" refers to the reality of life in the northern suburbs of Paris. This area, often labeled “93” after its postal code, becomes both a literal and figurative space of limbo: geographically on the periphery of the capital, culturally detached, and socially marginalized. The suburbs are where movement and stagnation coexist, and where identities blur. For some, limbo is a condition imposed by migration and displacement; for others, it is a state they are born into.
Limbo represents a state of uncertainty and in-betweenness—a place where movement feels impossible. It can be a moment of waiting, a boundary between realities, or a state of neglect and oblivion. In spiritual interpretations, limbo is seen as a space where souls are trapped between life and death, unable to move forward until they resolve unfinished business or confront past mistakes. This duality—of being stuck yet yearning for change—lies at the heart of what limbo symbolizes in both personal and universal experiences.
Their law makes us illegal.
But it should have been Uber Eats.
But it should have been Uber Eats.
2021
MY PERSONAL LIMBO
Project Limbo 93 is closely intertwined with my life journey as an immigrant in France and as an artist. For years, I’ve lived in a state of liminality—a space where I’ve struggled to find stability, purpose, and a sense of belonging. As an immigrant in the northern suburbs of Paris, I’ve witnessed and experienced the tension between progress and stagnation, hope and despair.
For me, Limbo 93 isn’t just a project—it’s an exploration of what it means to exist in-between worlds. It’s a reflection of my own struggles: balancing survival and creation, reconciling the past with the present, and finding meaning in the chaos of it all.
For me, Limbo 93 isn’t just a project—it’s an exploration of what it means to exist in-between worlds. It’s a reflection of my own struggles: balancing survival and creation, reconciling the past with the present, and finding meaning in the chaos of it all.
There are so many dead people in me at once, -
I feel like a whole fucking cemetery of Montparnasse.
Je recommence à zéro:
I’m not a good girl anymore
After my exile in the Limbo.
Bad girl is not enough
For a good guy to love.
Good guy needs to go forward,
Bad girl needs no coward
I feel like a whole fucking cemetery of Montparnasse.
Je recommence à zéro:
I’m not a good girl anymore
After my exile in the Limbo.
Bad girl is not enough
For a good guy to love.
Good guy needs to go forward,
Bad girl needs no coward
Le temps figé
Le temps se fige ici
sans témoignes.
CCTV n’enregistre pas tes rides.
Le temps se fige ici,
mais la vie passe vite.
sans témoignes.
CCTV n’enregistre pas tes rides.
Le temps se fige ici,
mais la vie passe vite.
Le message
Vous brûlez au feux doux
Dans le confort absolu
d’où votre indifférence.
……………………………….
(Ajoutez votre ligne qui rhyme)
Vous brûlez au feux doux
Dans le confort absolu
d’où votre indifférence.
……………………………….
(Ajoutez votre ligne qui rhyme)
Un portarit d’un voyaguer libre
Ça te rend parano
quand tu descends dans le métro.
Entouré par l’autrui
T’oublies que t’es à Paris.
Regarde dans nos yeux:
Il n’y a pas de danger,
Il n’y a qu’un mur.
Ça te rend parano
quand tu descends dans le métro.
Entouré par l’autrui
T’oublies que t’es à Paris.
Regarde dans nos yeux:
Il n’y a pas de danger,
Il n’y a qu’un mur.
“Tous concernent des êtres portant en eux des appartenances qui, aujourd’hui, s’affrontent violemment; des être frontaliers, en quelques sorte, traversés par des lignes de fracture ethniques, religieuses ou autres. En raison meme de cette situation, que je n’ose pas appeler “privilégiée”, ils ont un rôle à jouer pour tisser des liens, dissiper des malentendus, raisonner les uns, tempérer les autres, aplanir, raccommoder…”
Amin Maalouf “Les identités meurtrières
2024
First Exhibition
Vernissage
Documentary Teaser
After the vernissage of my first exhibition, I got inspired to go further with the idea and turn the Limbo 93 into an immersive multimedia project that will step beyond photography and poetry, integrating documentary filmmaking as well as sound art. I plan to create several documentary episodes dedicated to the lives of residents whose stories resonate with the concept of limbo. These new dimensions will provide an even stronger voice to these narratives and deepen the impact of this multidisciplinary project, connecting personal stories to collective understanding and offering a nuanced perspective on what it means to live in limbo.
This too is Paris (Limbo 93) Teaser
The first episode of the documentary series is scheduled to be released in February 2025. Written and Directed by Kat Redkind
The project is still growing
LIMBO 93
I am still photographing the suburbs, exploring their hidden corners with my camera, writing poems and living in 93 area, getting to know my neighbors better, and collecting their stories.
I dream of creating an immersive exhibition that will also include artwork of residents of the Limbo—people who have never considered themselves artists but still kept on creating. Maybe I'll manage to rescue art that has never been born due to poverty and give it a chance to bee seen.
I dream of creating an immersive exhibition that will also include artwork of residents of the Limbo—people who have never considered themselves artists but still kept on creating. Maybe I'll manage to rescue art that has never been born due to poverty and give it a chance to bee seen.