Lydia Ourahmane participates in the Biennale Gherdëina 10 titled (Future) Paradise Gardens. Curated by Samuel Leuenberger, the biennale explores how gardens can become spaces of care, coexistence, and imagination—rooted in justice, equality, and collective futures.

At the centre of the abandoned Hotel Ladinia, Ourahmane reactivates the former bar and lounge as a site of encounter. Closed since 1998, the space once functioned as a social nucleus, where guests and locals gathered to drink, talk, and play games. Through conversations with former staff and visitors, the artist traces fragments of these past uses and reintroduces them as living gestures.
For the Biennale, the bar is reopened as a provisional setting: visitors are invited to bring their own drinks and gather around bespoke tables to play chess. Rather than reconstructing a specific history, the work operates through re-enactment and participation, allowing new interactions to unfold within an existing architecture.
The installation shifts the space from absence to use, foregrounding social exchange as material. What emerges is a subtle reactivation of memory—where past and present overlap through collective presence and shared time.

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