Crac Occitanie
Located in the heart of Sète, the CRAC faces the Mediterranean harbour. The architecture of this 1,200 m2 building reflects its industrial nature : a former fish-freezing factory renovated in 1997.
Located in the heart of Sète, the CRAC faces the Mediterranean harbour. The architecture of this 1,200 m2 building reflects its industrial nature : a former fish-freezing factory renovated in 1997.
Programme
La solidarité des destins, Louisa Marajo
Louisa Marajo (1987, Martinique) creates installations, sculptures, and photographic assemblages that explore the ecological, historical, and social tensions shaping her island of birth. In this postcolonial territory marked by hurricanes, soil pollution, and the proliferation of sargassum along Caribbean shores, the sea appears as a space of transformation and a reservoir of memory. Since 2018, the artist has explored these invasive algae as a narrative material, reflecting on how the ocean can be represented in an era of climate disruption.
La solidarité des destins, the outcome of an artist residency dedicated to professional fishing in the Mediterranean and carried out in Le Grau-du-Roi in 2025, brings together a short film, texts, images, and sculptures presented within a scenography conceived for Crac Occitanie in Sète.
Plastic Newspaper, Lucy McKenzie
For her first solo exhibition in France, the Scottish artist Lucy McKenzie (born in 1977) revisits the major themes that have shaped her work over the past five years: statuary, fashion and the art of display windows, feminist critiques of power and elites, craftsmanship, leisure, and mass media.
The exhibition brings together a large body of paintings, sculptures, posters, trompe-l’œil works, stage sets, and garments. It explores the formal and cultural inventions that have helped transform everyday life into a permanent spectacle—much like painted panoramas, spaces of art, science, and entertainment where playful experience merges with the massification of the gaze.
Access
Crac Occitanie, le Centre régional d'art contemporain
Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée
26, quai Aspirant-Herber
34200 Sète
+33 (0)4 67 74 94 37
crac.laregion.fr
Every day except on Tuesday: 12.30pm - 7pm.
Saturday & Sunday: 2pm - 7pm.
Free entry.
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PLACES TO DISCOVER
• Musée Paul-Valéry
• Miam : Musée International des Arts Modestes
• MACO, le Musée à Ciel Ouvert : art walks through the city, marked by street art works.
• MID, Maison de l’Image Documentaire
• Le Mont Saint-Clair : an outstanding panoramic view of the Mediterranean and the Bassin de Thau.
• La Pointe Courte : typical alleys convey the Sète’s culture.
• The marine cemetery
• Fiest’A Sète (late July, early August)
• Worldwide festival (early July)
• K-Live festival (early June)
• La fête de la Saint-Louis (end of August)
PLACES TO EAT
• Le Paris-Méditerranée : a gourmet and inventive cuisine, evenings only.
• Midi Là-Haut : restaurant and café of the Museum Paul Valéry with sea view.
• Chez Lanchois : delicious fusion cuisine in a wonderful setting (access through an industrial area).
• Là-Haut : a snack where we reportedly eat the best tiellas.
• Chez Nossa : deluxe pizzas and natural wines.
• Chez Alphonse et Fils : enjoy the black sesame ice cream and the view…
PLACES TO STAY
• L’Orque Bleue Hotel : boutique hotel on the banks of the Royal Canal in the heart of Sète.
