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.
Nearly forty works draw a course in two times. From the deafening din of megalopolis to the magic of nature's cycles, the artist's installations play on the illusion between a real object and a video image, often fragile but always poetic.
Through an alliance between image technologies and recycled objects, the artist stages the crashes of the modern world in the face of the infinite time of the universe with a strong dose of humor and a certain narrative poetry. The overconsumption and mass media, the alienation of man, the invasive place of technology and the vital momentum of nature feed his works that express a form of revolt while remaining light and funny in appearance.
Le Grenier à sel
2, rue Rempart Saint-Lazare
84000 Avignon
0033 4 32 74 05 31
legrenierasel-avignon.fr
Open according to the programme.
Free entry.
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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.
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.