Paris, France, vendredi 13 novembre 2015

Léa Belooussovitch’s monumental fresco "Paris, France, vendredi 13 novembre 2015" rises quietly yet powerfully on rue Léon-Frot, just steps away from La Belle Équipe café where 21 lives were lost during the attacks of November 13, 2015. Unveiled on the eve of the tenth anniversary, the work transforms collective grief into a luminous act of remembrance. Instead of depicting violence, Belooussovitch dissolves it into a cascade of blurred colors—yellow, pink, blue, orange, brown—soft forms that resist sharp outlines. At the heart of the composition lies the embrace of two survivors under a survival blanket, reimagined through abstraction. The gesture becomes universal: love, empathy, and solidarity rising from chaos. By veiling the scene in softness, the artist creates what she calls an “ethical veil,” a way of remembering without reproducing brutality. The blur is not erasure but activation, a trigger for memory that leaves something present yet intangible. From this mist of colors emerges light—resilience, hope, and the insistence of life returning to the foreground. More than a memorial, the fresco offers a peaceful space for reflection, inviting passersby to pause, to honor, and to carry forward the memory of those Paris will never forget.