Meeting: À la lisière de la lumière

Karim Kattan is a writer from Bethlehem, Palestine. He writes fiction, essays, and poetry in both English and French. His latest novel, L’Eden à l’aube, was published in 2024 by Elyzad. He recently released Hortus Conclusus, a poetry collection published by L’extrême contemporain.

Fabienne Radi writes (fiction, essays, poems), produces artist's editions (books, posters, records) and teaches at art school. Her training in geology brought her a love of layers, her brief foray into librarianship sparked an infatuation with filing, and her art studies transformed her view of everyday objects. Titles, misunderstandings, haircuts and dentists are recurring motifs in her work. His book Émail Diamant (art&fiction) was awarded the Swiss Literature Prize in 2022.

Born in 1986, Nelly Desmarais hails from Richelieu, in the Montérégie region. She holds a Master's degree in literature from the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she is currently pursuing doctoral studies. She worked in publishing for twelve years. Her book of poems Marche à voix basse, published by Quartanier in 2022, won the Émile-Nelligan prize.

Lisette Lombé is a multi-faceted, border-crossing artist whose work is animated by poetic, scenic, plastic, militant and pedagogical practices. Her writings and struggles are based on her own personal experience as a woman, mother and teacher. The result is collages, performances, books and workshops, transmitters of rage and eros. Co-founder of the Collectif L-SLAM, in 2017 she was awarded the Citoyenne d'Honneur de la Ville de Liège for her work as an artivist and ambassador of slam to the four corners of the French-speaking world. In 2020, she received a Golden Afro Artistic Award for her novel Vénus Poética (ed. L'Arbre à Paroles) and the Prix Grenades/RTBF for her collection Brûler brûler brûler (ed. l'Iconoclaste). She is the current Belgium's National Poetess 2024-2025.

Haleh Chinikar, born in Iran and based in Brussels since 2007, is an artist and poet whose work explores the body, memory, and language through textile and movement. Her practice delves into displacement, the fluid concept of "home," and bodily resistance within collective memory. She calls this blend of words and gestures a "melting pot," inviting reflection and deep human engagement. In 2022, she co-founded M-A Collective, a group of Iranian women performance artists. She performs both collectively and individually.