Inspired by the French title of Richard Wagamese's novel, the exhibition "Les étoiles s'éteignent à l'aube" (Stars turn off at dawn) pays tribute to the great outdoors, but also to the quest for self and the encounter with origins recounted by the indigenous Canadian writer.
Immersed in the Scandinavian forest, Rune Guneriussen installs his ephemeral sculptures in a solitary process akin to meditation, where the image before our eyes is the only trace of its passage, and where man must step aside to make way for the powerful beauty of nature.
Light also shines through Justin Weiler's latest work, in which he constructs a suspended space and, further on, a magnificent diptych that invites us to contemplate the passing of time.
Rennes-based artist Angélique Lecaille takes her inspiration from the origins of the world and natural phenomena to compose her drawings of rocks and meteorites in graphite, suspended in flight from copper strips. A geometric gesture found in Irma Kalt's stencil drawings, softened by the movement and folds of the fabric represented. Meticulously superimposed as she does in silkscreen, her lines bear the trace of long, meditative work, like strata of memories.
Jean-Claude Pondevie's photographs ask visitors to stop and take their time before these monochromes, which reveal their light, their constructions and their details as they are observed.
Time speeds up in front of Philippe Chancel's Rebels portraits, where the rebel stars of the Parisian night seek their identity with fury and rage, at the risk of burning their wings.
"Les étoiles s'éteignent à l'aube" is a temporary black and white, a suspended space, like a memory, a dream, where reality will resume its course in color at the end of the exhibition.

On the occasion of the vernissage
on Thursday November 24 at 6:30 pm
launch and signing of the book
"Rebels - Une jeunesse de France"
by Philippe Chancel.

Exhibition open Wednesday, November 23 to Sunday, November 27, 2022, 2:30 to 6:30 pm,
then by appointment in December.

Rebels, a youth from France

France in the 80s as you've never seen it before!

These photographs by Philippe Chancel inspired the film "Les Rascals" by Jimmy Laporal-Trésor, which will be released in cinemas on January 11, 2023.
In the early 1980s, France was going through a turbulent period, with spiraling unemployment, the rise of the Front National and increasing violence against immigrants.
It is against this backdrop that Philippe Chancel paints a portrait of France's youth as mixed-race, dynamic and daring. These powerful snapshots illustrate the dream ofa different France in the 80s, in contrast to the pitiful spectacle of the early stages of an odious election campaign.
In Paris, "le quadrilatère Nation, République, Grands boulevards, Gare de l'Est, marque leur territoire. Like them, I'm just 20. Blacks, whites, Beurs, pretty faces and broken faces face each other. The story is one of trouble, against a backdrop of sex, drugs, Rockab' and glamour; where the Stray Cats go on until late at Albert's "Grand Boulevards" parties. (...) It's this raw energy that I tried to capture with my camera, charged with a Kodak Tri-X boosted by my flash. Even if I sometimes acted with cunning and surprise, I always expressed truth and sincerity through my shots... "Philippe Chancel
The France of the 80s is also, and above all, the France of this book. The famous little History of France, the one that was rarely or never mentioned in the newspapers. The Front National was beginning its ascent to 42% in this year's presidential elections, and police violence was at least as prevalent as it will be in 2022, but in those days, people liked to have style and assume it. Philippe Chancel's photographs express this France. At night, not all cats were gray, they were black, white, beur and proud of it.