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
Dé)jouer les mondes
From its very beginnings, the video game has been a space of resistance. Hacked, repurposed and subverted by generations of creators, it carries political, ecological and identity-related concerns that the exhibition brings to the fore. (Dé)jouer les mondes examines rules, bodies, interfaces and virtual spaces to reveal what they say about contemporary modes of representation: power structures, digital extractivism and colonial narratives, but also alternative imaginaries and interspecies alliances.
The exhibition brings together artists from different countries whose hybrid practices span video games, visual art, performance and oral storytelling. In total, some fifteen works, most of them created since 2020, and a monumental installation conceived especially for the occasion reach across continents to create a new map of digital imaginaries of resistance.
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 DISCOVER
• 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.
• 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 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.
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.
