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A festive and creative night-time journey through eastern Paris for Nuit Blanche 2025, in partnership with the Fiminco Foundation, La Galerie, Les Magasins Généraux and Le Wonder.
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Garance Früh’s sculpture and installation work maintains a fragile and tenuous link with questions of protecting, defending and caring for the body, using pre-existing materials that most often constrain, protect or clothe the female body.
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Artist Héloïse Farago’s works of contemporary fin’amor nestle at the heart of the ARCHEA museum’s permanent tour, echoing the thousand years of medieval history of the Roissy area.
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The Centre culturel Jean Cocteau and the Lycée Polyvalent Paul Robert des Lilas have teamed up on a collective exhibition curated by the students of two classes of seconde and curator and mediator Thomas Maestro.
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Echoing the Frac’s exhibition on the Middle Ages reinvented, Michel Charpentier’s two life-size figures, ‘Vierge d’Ile-de-France sud’ and ‘Vierge d’Ile-de-France nord’, are on display in part of poet Jean Cocteau’s garden, opposite the house in Milly-la-forêt.
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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.
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Matthias Odin’s sculptures come to life through his everyday experiences. Each encounter retains a material or immaterial memory that feeds into his composite installations, which become witnesses to his great mobility.
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This exhibition offers an artistic and fictional echo of the history and literature syllabuses, providing an opening onto the challenges of historiography.
The Frac invites pupils to extend their discovery of the works by creating mediation stories. Two other classes are taking part in workshops on the medievalist practice of an artist from the Berserk & Pyrrhia programme.
This trail offers an encounter with different forms of contemporary art, based on the theme of water and echoing the medieval and monastic history of the Domaine régional de Villarceaux.
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Using works from the Frac Île-de-France collection and those of young contemporary artists, the exhibition invites visitors to re-furnish the rooms, drawing on the mobile and movable past of a castle with many lives. Chests, chairs, consoles and other objects reinterpret medieval forms, bringing to life the imaginations and fantasies associated with the period.
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