Les Mondes parlés invites authors and artists who write to give a reading/performance of their work, followed by a discussion. This year's theme is the transition from one language to another, as we all have experiences with languages – our mother tongue, foreign languages, languages we have learned or forgotten – that deeply connect us to our history.

Nassera Tamer will read and present Allô la Place (August 2025, Verdier), a novel about her reconnection with Moroccan Arabic, parental language and ghost language of immigration, and her fascination with those shops named “taxiphones”, where immigrants go to call their country, “semaphores that carry elsewhere, the past, the future, here and now.” She revisits the sound traces that accompanied the writing of this text, which gives voice to the “black hole” of her language, its silences and murmurs, and the stories echoed by the taxiphones.

Born in 1982 in Le Havre, Nassera Tamer studied law and literature. She lives and works in Paris. Allô la Place is her first novel.

The Geneva Contemporary Art Centre is delighted to continue the Mondes Parlés programme for the 10th year, with the collaboration of Emmanuelle Pireyre, author and head of the writing workshop at HEAD – Geneva