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Cet entretien a été réalisé pour la série « Les Archives à l’épreuve du genre » à l’occasion de l’exposition « Histoires Croisées. Gae Aulenti, Ada Louise Huxtable, Phyllis Lambert, sur l’architecture et la ville » à Archizoom en automne 2025.
Stéphanie Dadour adopte une posture critique vis-à-vis de l’archive elle-même, qu’elle ne considère pas comme un document neutre mais comme une construction politique. Elle plaide pour une “historiographie du silence”, attentive aux mécanismes d’effacement des femmes dans les récits. Stéphanie valorise les formes alternatives d’écriture historique, en croisant mémoire vivante, fiction et documents d’archives. Sa perspective met l’accent sur les biais institutionnels, la multiplicité des pratiques et la réinvention de l’histoire comme processus critique. This interview was conducted for the series “Archives Through the Lens of Gender” on the occasion of the exhibition “ Crossed Histories: Gae Aulenti, Ada Louise Huxtable, Phyllis Lambert, on Architecture and the City ” at Archizoom in the fall of 2025.
Stéphanie Dadour adopts a critical stance toward the archive itself, viewing it not as a neutral document but as a political construct. She calls for a “historiography of silence”, attentive to the mechanisms of erasure of women from historical narratives. Stéphanie values alternative modes of historical writing, blending living memory, fiction, and archival documents. Her perspective emphasizes institutional bias, the multiplicity of practices, and the reinvention of history as an ongoing critical process.