This multidisciplinary contemporary arts centre of national interest and artists’residency is set in the compound of the 19th-century Montperrin Psychiatric Hospital. It welcomes visual artists as well as performing arts companies and offers exhibitions, shows, and encounters.
This multidisciplinary contemporary arts centre of national interest and artists’residency is set in the compound of the 19th-century Montperrin Psychiatric Hospital. It welcomes visual artists as well as performing arts companies and offers exhibitions, shows, and encounters.
Lina Jabbour was born in Beirut in 1973. After initial works that reflected a highly politicised discourse on identity, she gradually evolved towards an aesthetic more marked by a dreamlike vocabulary. As if the question of the strange was slowly replacing that of the foreign. This exhibition is the fruit of a six-week artistic residency at the Montperrin Hospital laundry, followed by three months at 3 bis f, during which Lina Jabour observed and listened at various positions in the laundry. Gestures were put in place according to the rhythm of the workers and the machines, and Lina Jabbour's serial work of drawings and paintings drew on the plans of the place, the machines, the folds of the sheets and the formats of the linen, to give rise to the creation of a 10-metre long drawing.
3 bis f, Centre d’arts contemporains d’intérêt national
CH Montperrin
109 av. du Petit Barthélémy
13100 Aix-en-Provence
3bisf.com
Tuesday to Saturday (2pm-6pm) and by appointment.
Closed from 21 July to 12 August.
Free access.
How to get there?
• By car: once inside the Centre Hospitalier Montperrin, follow the signs. Parking available.
• By bus (from Marseille): shuttle buses leave for Aix every 5 minutes during rush hour, from the bus station next to the Saint Charles train station (Line 50). Get off at the Aix bus station.
• On foot: 3 bis f is just a few minutes from the city center, bus station, Méjanes library, Darius Milhaud conservatory, Grand Théâtre de Provence and Pavillon Noir.
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CULTURE & HERITAGE
• Le Pavillon de Vendôme: museum and sumptuous French gardens. (Aix-en-Provence)
WALKS
• Promenade de la Torse: a riverside park ideal for a country walk. (Aix-en-Provence)
PLACES TO STAY
• La Maison du Collectionneur: a confidential and intimate address to sleep in the heart of the Mazarin district. (Aix-en-Provence)
PLACES TO EAT & DRINK
• Mademoiselle Wine: a wine cellar specialising in local champagnes, just a stone's throw from the magnificent Place Richelme market. (Aix-en-Provence)
• La Méduse: a bar where the welcome is as good as the quality of the wines and the small plates to share. (Aix-en-Provence)
• Gallifet Kitchen: restaurant in the garden of the Hôtel de Gallifet from June to October, tea room from October to May. (Aix-en-Provence)