Invited to the fourth edition of La Friche at the Palais de Tokyo to develop her research around mental health, Mathilde Nourrisson created Agnès, a giant puppet who has since become a semi-permanent resident of the Hamo, where she looks after the visitors who come to curl up there. The artist documented her experiments and the secret lives of her puppet family in a publication produced in the Palais de Tokyo’s risography workshop with Victoria Bernard during the summer of 2025.

On Wednesday, November 26, at the Hamo, come discover her research, meet Agnès and Mathilde Nourrisson, and get your copy of Journal Intime signed!

Journal Intime [Diary] recounts the lives of Mathilde Nourrisson’s puppets. A collection of objects and images unfolds through collages that reveal the details of the characters’ habits, obsessions, oddities, biases, fears, fantasies, secrets, and misunderstandings. By presenting this imaginary intimacy–tender, strange, and vulnerable – the book calls for a vision of humanity freed from the demands of efficiency and productivity. It delves into the encounters and relationships that take shape within this puppet world. The visual narrative, to be explored like an investigation, traces the power of friendships and communal bonds among these curious, sensitive beings. The texture of risograph printing complements the handmade, intimate universe of the book.

• The event will take place at the Hamo