Curators: Rémi Enguehard et Héloïse Joannis
Co-curated by students in the visual arts speciality and their teachers.
Opening Tuesday 07.05.25, 6pm-7:30pm, free entrance
With artworks by:
Carlotta Bailly-Borg*, Jimmy Beauquesne, Richard Fauguet*, Michel François*, Eliott Gamer, Bridget Low, Antoine Marquis*, Théodore Melchior and Samir Mougas*.
*Frac Île-de-France collection
Made of ink and paper, and why not clay or wool, the characters bring a story to life and embody its universe. Starting with the characters that populate medieval novels, the exhibition, co-curated with a group of students from the Jacques Higelin Conservatoire in Pantin, invites visitors to discover contemporary reinterpretations of these figures, who are a constant source of inspiration and fantasy.
The exhibition thus combines the interests of artists and students in pop culture, heroic fantasy, video games, theatre, illustration and cartoons, also full of references borrowed from the medieval universe. From a corpus of works attentive to the diversity of mediums, students form their community of knights, fantastic creatures, copyist monks, witches and healers to make them evolve in their own medieval narrative where they shed light on their present questions. Why call yourself a knight today? What can you learn from witches? How can all these invented magical creatures guide us?
In addition to the selected works, students aged 11 to 17 tell stories about these characters and exhibit their own creations that reflect their vision of the Middle Ages. They bring these medieval dreams to life, extending the artists’ hybrid artistic universes that they in turn enrich.
The exhibition At the window of the dungeon is presented in the conservatory gallery.
Conservatoire Jacques Higelin
49 av. du Général Leclerc
93500 Pantin
Open Mon. – Fri. 9am-7pm/ Sat. 9.30am-5pm