On the way

En chemin presents the work of seven artists who, through sculpture, photography, video, narrative and painting, engage in moments of intimate exchange with the external environment.

Each has established a close dialogue with the impalpable, elusive elements of nature, perceiving the world with his or her own sensibility. So what do their works tell us about reality? Is it for the artists a quest for the sublime, both personal and universal, or a way of capturing the energy of the world, the signs and poetic forms that govern it, its balance as much as its instability, its harmony as much as its tension? In their quest to make the invisible visible, some artists summon their intimacy, through time, space or the spiritual, testifying to the porosity of universes.

While some artistic practices engage in immediate dialogue, responding to the fleeting nature of life, others are attuned to the cycles of the seasons, letting time do its work. The exhibition invites us to slow down in the face of a world that seems to be accelerating ever faster.

Seven artists on a sensitive journey through the Patio of the Musée d'arts, bathed in summer light

Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, on the way to the elusive,

Marcelline Delbecq, on the road to storytelling and fiction,

Anne-Charlotte Finel, on her way to the in-between,

Dominique Ghesquière, on the road to sensitive appropriation,

Patrick Neu, on the road to virtuoso delicacy,

Abraham Poincheval, on his way to the solitude of experience,

and Evariste Richer, on their way to the impalpable.

On the road with...

Katell Jaffrès

Curating the exhibition and in charge of the museum's contemporary art collections, Katell Jaffrès invites us to slow down and take our time in the face of an accelerating world. She tells us a little more about the exhibition, the artists, the works and the collective adventure it represents.

Dominique Ghesquière

Dominique Ghesquière talks to us about his work and the two works presented for the exhibition, including Terre de profondeur, the central, monumental work that occupies a large part of the Patio space.

Anne-Charlotte Finel

Artist Anne-Charlotte Finel presents her three works from the exhibition En chemin. The videos Barrage and Cargo de nuit and her sandblasted glass prints Sableur.