CACN – Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes
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Nîmes
The hour of wolf and sheep, Melika Sadeghzadeh
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The exhibition presents recent works by Melika Sadeghzadeh, some of which evoke a house that is constantly changing and impossible to return to. You can observe several attempts to rebuild things, to activate memories, to account for what can no longer be seen. Conversely, some works resist the gaze: opaque, they contain the collective traumas we have got used to living with. Vision is blurred, unable to remember precisely or to move forward, in the twilight zone.
Carré d’Art
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Nîmes
Dissonances à géométries variables, Tursic & Mille
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Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille explore the endless possibilities of painting. Between abstraction and figuration, the duo tackles landscapes, portraits and still lifes. Their subjects are drawn from the history of art, cinema, the internet or magazines, opening up a multitude of interpretations.
Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète-Béziers
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Montpellier
Khamsin
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The khamsin – that southerly wind that carries scorching sand from Egypt to the Middle East – appears as a metaphorical device for an external force that comes to extinguish everything, burying all the narratives, places, and stories encountered along its way. Covered in orange sand, the landscape becomes uniform and dissolves.
Like a poetic ruse, the khamsin asserts here—drawing on the writings of Palestinian authors Mahmoud Darwish and Karim Kattan—that disorientation makes it possible to break free from the spatial, temporal, economic and political coordinates imposed by the West.
Featuring works by Cindy Bannani, Arash Nassiri, Garance Butler-Oliva and Lucie Gholam.
Crac Occitanie
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Sète
Plastic Newspaper, Lucy McKenzie
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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.
Mrac Occitanie
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Sérignan
Intercisio, Philippe Decrauzat
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Through painting, film and installation, Philippe Decrauzat explores perception and optical phenomena, drawing on 20th-century abstraction and Op Art. An immersive experience in which patterns, light and scale disrupt the space and place the viewer at the heart of it all.
Musée-bibliothèque Pierre André Benoit
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Alès
Iliazd, poet-architect of the book
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Ilia Zdanevitch, known as Iliazd (1894-1975), is a major figure of the 20th-century avant-garde. A poet and visionary publisher, he left his mark on his era with his creative audacity, redefining the boundaries of typography and the dialogue between text and image. The exhibition highlights his legendary collaborations with giants of modern art, including Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró.
Musée International des Arts Modestes (MIAM)
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Sète
Adrien Fregosi
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A solo exhibition by Adrien Fregosi (1980–2024), who spent the last ten years in Sète, where he developed a prolific and poetic body of work that is both fragile and powerful, gentle and serious. His works stem from his drawing practice and are influenced by alternative cultures, ranging from graffiti to fanzines.