SYNOPSIS

The Espace Monte-Christo plunges you into a narrative and poetic dimension with its new exhibition. Thanks to a selection of over 50 sculptures by French and international artists, Imaginary Worlds is an invitation to broaden your horizons through a dreamlike journey designed like a story in several chapters.

Peopled with strange animals, a mysterious forest spreads from the edge of an unfathomable city made up of houses and architecture fringed by a beach where, in the shadow of colourful palm trees, stands a makeshift hut. Climbing the steps to the first floor, you will be guided by a solar installation which extends this journey into the unknown. Witness to the history of the Collection, a curiosity cabinet evokes the adventure of an explorer who has visited the past exhibitions, like so many far-flung lands.

In his immersive installation ‘La Famille des Hybridus’, Jean-François Fourtou, the exhibition’s carte blanche artist, presents over a dozen part-human, part-plant figures illustrating, with poetry and nostalgia, moments in life inspired by the Belle Époque and projecting an idyllic image of a humanity in symbiosis with nature.

Whether personal or political, the works presented create a unique landscape which gently and delicately evokes the hopes and fears of our world in the making. Alternating tenderness and malice, the exhibition invites you to get back in touch with your childhood outlook to better question our era through stories, games and dreams, in the hope of imagining a possible future, to be built together.