July 6, 2024
6 Rue de la Croix Louis
Brétigny-sur-Orge
France
In 2023—2024, CAC Brétigny, closed for renovation work, ran two cycles of off-site exhibitions and residencies. For this transitional season, the art centre transformed into a cultural vessel that accompanied the artists and guest curators in developing narratives anchored in the local area. As the spaceship prepares to go back into orbit until after the summer holidays, young and old alike are invited to come and celebrate the end of this first off-site season. Workshops, performance, screenings… a range of activities offering the chance to immerse yourself in the art centre’s programme!
All afternoon
lunulae #4, exhibition visit
With Ethan Assouline, Célia Boulesteix, Collectif Grapain, Andréa Spartà, Sandar Tun Tun & Ife Day, Xolo Cuintle
Curator: Thomas Maestro
This final exhibition in the “lunulae” cycle is just on the surface of things, where we can make out the traces of buried secrets. We explore different zones (private, political, inhabited, deserted or haunted). Spaces with hazy borders, calling on us to reconsider our relationship with time.
“Roberlax’s walk”, early learning art workshop
Designed by Joséphine Topolanski
Through storytelling and a sensory play mat designed and made by the artist Joséphine Topolanski, the children discover, explore and touch, at their own pace, the different textures, colours and landscapes that make up the story.
Transmissions, sound installation
Sonia Saroya & Edouard Sufrin with Elen Huynh
Curator: Marie Plagnol
In 2023—2024, neighbours from the art centre’s off-site exhibitions worked with the artists to respond to the arrival of the art centre near them. They recorded and edited sounds from the future using a range of devices allowing the capture of sounds from our environments and created their own transmission tool, by replacing the electronic components of old radios.
A dimension unlike any other, screening
Laura Burucoa and Aliette Salama
The artists explored the territory of dreams with the students of the Roger Vivier elementary school in Marolles-en-Hurepoix. The children each contributed to the creation of a collective dreamlike story: from the stories of their dreams, they wrote, directed and stared in stories set in fantastic sceneries.
Abri de Pensée (La Cabane), launch
Ethan Assouline
Curator: Thomas Maestro
After eight months of writing workshops, drawings, discussions, collages and designing layouts, the fanzine Abri de Pensée (La Cabane) is finally here! It brings together nearly 50 pages filled with snippets of daily life, dreams, ideas for now and the future, attempts to say “who we are” and “why”’ and thoughts on how to talk about our fears, desires, our bedroom, solitude or the collective.
4pm
Performed reading of Le jukebox des Trobairitz
Helena de Laurens, Clara Pacotte and Esmé Planchon
Curator: Valentina Ulisse
Performed reading, in the form of a jukebox, of the book Le jukebox des Trobairitz: from Alexandrine to Zizanie, 101 mythological, topographical and poetic definitions.
3–6pm
“The meetings of l’Ecole”, collective artistic workshop
Clara Denidet
Curators: The CAC Brétigny team
Continuing the collective creation sessions organised throughout the season with l’Ecole, the artist Clara Denidet extends an invitation to anyone who wants to get together and mend one of their textile belongings.
Free shuttle Paris-Brétigny available: Pick up at 2:15pm at 104 avenue de France, 75013 Paris (the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand metro stop). Mandatory booking for the shuttle at reservation [at] cacbretigny.com.
The CAC Brétigny is a cultural establishment of Cœur d’Essonne Agglomération. Labeled as a Contemporary Art Center of National Interest, it benefits from the support of the Ministère de la Culture—DRAC Île-de-France, Région Île-de-France and Conseil départemental de l’Essonne, with the complicity of the Brétigny-sur-Orge’s municipality. CAC Brétigny is a member of DCA, TRAM and BLA!.
