offsite exhibitions

The exhibition brings together works from the Frac Île-de-France collection and from artists whose fantastic worlds are a direct legacy of the medieval taste for hybrid and marvellous figures that populate our imaginations, tinged with heroic fantasy, a frequent gateway to an often fantasised Middle Ages.

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.

The exhibition at the Château du Val Fleury is an invitation to explore the spiritual, almost magical dimension of certain places. Martine Boileau’s sculpture, a trio of large, enigmatic figures, welcomes visitors to the chateau. These sculptures resonate with Berserk & Pyrrhia, conjuring up an ancient, fantastical memory that extends that of past architecture in the same way that medieval ruins inspire an imagination inhabited by ghosts and fantastic tales.

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.

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.