Through Nov 14
Amélie Bigard
Adieu la Famille
Oct 19 – Nov 14, 2026
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"He was fifteen. Or seventeen. Or twenty-four. Or forty-four.
The years didn’t matter.
There was a bedroom.
A brand-new housing development.
A silent house.
A door that was no longer opened.
Down below, an old shed in a garden.
Furniture overturned after an outburst of anger no one remembered.
A window overlooking a small forest on the outskirts of town.
His mother thought it would eventually pass.
His father said he should be left alone.
One of his friends brought up a pact they had made a few years earlier.
A girl remembered how he often stared out the window during class.
Someone would occasionally come across a photograph of him while scrolling through their phone.
Then one day, he never came back.
Everyone began telling a different story.
They enlarged the pictures.
They searched for a detail.
They spoke of heartbreak.
An accident.
An illness.
A violent father.
Work.
People said he had never wanted for anything.
He had had everything.
A rainbow.
Fireworks.
A Christmas party.
A bouncy castle.
Messages on his phone.
Presents.
Packages to unwrap.
Plans to go out over the weekend.
For next year’s holidays.
A story that had begun long before him."
—Virgil Vernier, 2026
