3 bis f - Centre d’arts contemporains d’intérêt national
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.
Programme
Ghita Skali - Ce qu'on laisse
An exhibition supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in France and the Aix-en-Provence Biennale 2026.
Ghita Skali, an artist from Casablanca based in Amsterdam. Her multidisciplinary practice includes installations, videos, and interventions. She draws on strange news items, rumours, and historical facts to disrupt institutional power structures. Her work blends humour and critique, resulting in projects that circulate beyond exhibition spaces, through alternative merchandise trade, (il)legal documents, and objects one takes home.
In her practice, Ghita Skali explores the mechanisms behind the production of official narratives, marginalised or censored histories, and the ways in which fiction seeps into fact, and vice versa. During her residency, Ghita Skali wishes to develop a project around the objects that remain after death. These sometimes trivial items become traces, presences, or, on the contrary, things one tries to forget. As if these objects, already inert and silent, became even more so. In her work, Ghita addresses our fear of illness and our relationship to mourning, these “pains” present in different contexts, which we might share. However, class, gender, race, and other markers of inequality shape and alter our relationships to care and to the living. These situations generate different scales of anger, bitterness, and injustice. But is there something shared, something common, in the sorrow of losing loved ones?
Sessions: Tuesday 3 and 17 February 2025
Exhibition walkthrough: Saturday 23 May & artistic and civic celebration on 14 July
Highlight event as part of the Printemps de l’Art Contemporain PAC festival: Saturday 23 May
Yuyan Wang - Weather
Exhibition supported by the Carte Blanche program, Région Sud
Yuyan Wang is a video artist born in China and based in France. Her work explores the transformation of materials drawn from the image industry, which she deconstructs and reassembles through editing. By diverting images from their original contexts and from the ways they circulate—whether found, altered, or fabricated—she converts them into immersive sensory experiences.
Weather sketches an atmospheric landscape from images gleaned on social media. Captured by anonymous individuals across a scattered cartography, these wandering images—meteorological phenomena, everyday gestures, fleeting moments of contemplation—form the drifting fragments of a shared visual horizon. Stripped of their provenance and of the codified uses of dominant narratives, they gradually reveal affective layers tied to sensibility. In an age of information overload and the general acceleration of time, this fractured panorama invites us to relearn how to inhabit the real.
Access
3 bis f, Centre d’arts contemporains d’intérêt national
CH Montperrin
109 av. du Petit Barthélémy
13100 Aix-en-Provence
3bisf.com
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 2pm to 6pm.
Closed from October 25 to November 3, from December 20 to January 5, and from February 21 to March 2.
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PLACES TO DISCOVER
• Le Pavillon de Vendôme: museum and sumptuous French gardens. (Aix-en-Provence)
• Promenade de la Torse: a riverside park ideal for a country walk. (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)
PLACES TO STAY
• La Maison du Collectionneur: a confidential and intimate address to sleep in the heart of the Mazarin district. (Aix-en-Provence)
