Thursday 10 March 2011
On the principle of an ABC.... : In the form of an open dialogue with the public, this programme of gatherings launched in 2006 explored the museum's collections and the vocabulary of contemporary art.
Playful, almost anecdotic and in constant motion - with the dextrous help of the person playing with it - the yoyo invites us to appropriate the works and question them frankly, as a child does. Coming and going, neither here nor there, Philippe Hédan's photographs, taken from the series Les Anges, become elastic, and freely express their polysemy. These ambiguous images, virtually pictorial in approach (for the photographer is first a painter) question notions of sex, the human condition, taking flight and death. Thus, in the installation adopted by the museum, "Anges" particularly chimes with the figure of Prométhée painted by Jacques Réattu, in whose hands Prometheus becomes a liberator, bringing the gift of fire, the divine spark which raises man from his "animal" origins. Floating images in Hédan's work, levitating ones in Réattu's... It's hard to keep your feet on the ground in this room, even if they are made of plaster.
