Le Grenier à sel
The Grenier à sel is a multidisciplinary venue specialised in visual and performing arts. Its programme, including residencies and workshops, explores the connections between arts, science, and technologies.
The Grenier à sel is a multidisciplinary venue specialised in visual and performing arts. Its programme, including residencies and workshops, explores the connections between arts, science, and technologies.
Programme
Les animaux, ça vous parle ?
Final installment of the trilogy “Symptoms of the Living”, presented at the Grenier à sel since 2023, this exhibition explores the animal kingdom and its specific modes of communication and existence in relation to others. To delve into this question, it brings together artists from diverse backgrounds who approach creation as a space for dialogue with the living world.
Mostly working with digital tools—whether responding to internet culture, artificial intelligence and interactivity, robotics, sound art, hand-drawn animation, or more traditional media such as film, video, and installation—the featured artists each explore, in their own way, the mysteries of the animal world: its gestures, its emotions. In a world that has lost the thread of dialogue and is driving species to extinction, animals clearly still have much to tell us, if only we are willing to listen.
With : Erik Bünger, France Cadet, Dominique Castell, Nicolas Darrot, Lab212, Jean Painlevé, Daniel Spoerri, Tout/reste/à/faire, Knud Viktor, Filipe Vilas-Boas.
Access
Le Grenier à sel
2, rue Rempart Saint-Lazare
84000 Avignon
0033 4 32 74 05 31
legrenierasel-avignon.fr
Wednesday to Saturday, 2pm to 6pm.
Free admission.
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PLACES TO STAY
• L’Hôtel de l’Europe : one of the most ancient hotel in France, in an ideal place where you can have a drink.
• Le Lieu : a charming guesthouse and a restaurant in a place full of history and stories, a Cordeliers convent in the 13th century and a bourgeois house in the 18th and 19th centuries.
PLACES TO EAT
• Le Violette : inventive cuisine combining local products with flavours from elsewhere in the shade of century-old plane trees, far from the hustle and bustle of the city.
• Subito : simple recipes and fresh products for Italian cuisine lovers.
• Come a Roma : delicious Roman pizzas served with sunny tones.
• Bella Ciao : an utopian bakery in downtown Avignon offering different varieties of breads, sandwiches and pizzas.
WALKS & HERITAGE
• La navette fluviale : cross the Rhône for free from the Pont d'Avignon to the Île de la Barthelasse with the river shuttle. On the other bank, enjoy beautiful walks with views of the Pont d’Avignon, the ramparts or the Palais des Papes.
• Musée du Petit Palais : a siginificant art collection of Italian paintings, Avignonese sculptures and paintings from the Ecole d’Avignon.
• Musée Calvet : the Musée Calvet collections comprise archaeology, decorative arts, ethnography or fine arts.
• Maison Jean Vilar : an exhibition, archival and research centre, a place for encounters and entertainments in keeping with the popular theatre spirit.
CINEMA & BOOKS
• Utopia Manutention : an arthouse cinema at the foot of the Palais des Papes, with a restaurant.
• La Mémoire du Monde : a bookshop combining literature and art with a selection of small publishers and other rare texts.
• L’Eau Vive : this cosy bookshop for children holds creative workshops, readings, and book signings.
