3 july > 31 august

L'Arrière pays, Arab territories in an archipelago

  • Cultural
  • Exhibition
Musée des Curiosités – Église des Célestins, Place des Corps Saints, 84000 Avignon
The Centre National des Arts Plastiques is offering an exhibition linked to the languages invited to the Festival d'Avignon: Arabic languages, by inviting some twenty photographic and video artists from the Maghreb and the Middle East.
The works selected here for the exhibition L'Arrière-pays et ses écrans parallèles use the parameters of historical or fictional situations such as fear, suspicion, control, authority and submission, to question the meaning of secrecy, the archive and the codes of language that construct the mirror of reality. They take the critical form of counter-narratives and life courses, the "asymptote of reality", in the words of film theorist André Bazin.

Conceived as a journey through cycles of...

Opening times

From 3 July 2025 until 31 August 2025 - Closed on monday

Location

L'Arrière pays, Arab territories in an archipelago
Musée des Curiosités – Église des Célestins, Place des Corps Saints, 84000 Avignon
Spoken languages
  • French
Updated on 09 December 2024 at 16:28
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