The first of a series of international exhibitions focused on the margins and suburbs of France and the United States, “In the Banlieues/Centering the Margin: Saint-Denis/Oakland” is presented during Summer 2022 in Paris, Saint-Denis, San Francisco and Oakland. Whatever you call them – banlieues, peripheries, suburbs – this exhibition highlights the symbolic pivot from the center to the periphery. Artistic movements, social struggles, urban innovations: Oakland, California and Saint-Denis, France are today exerting their influence and inventing solutions to the challenges posed by inequity and the rapid urban development of metropolitan areas.