Along the route, the Pont Saint-Ange becomes an open-air gallery. An invitation to slow down, look up and rediscover Paris through the eyes of artists, in a place of passage that also becomes a place of encounter with contemporary art. With 51 reproductions of works from the collection of the Fonds, the exhibition brings together 48 artists around 8 themes that explore the notion of the city:
Places: before being inhabited, places are landscapes shaped by humans. Overviews or fragments of the city, these photographs show spaces where human presences are discreet, yet always suggested.
Buildings: designed to be inhabited, crossed or shared, whether full or empty, old or modern, they bear the traces of their occupants. Behind the facades and windows, human presence can be sensed, even when invisible.
Uses: the same places can be experienced in many ways: working, waiting, observing, gathering, sharing a meal, celebrating or moving about. These uses reveal the diversity of experiences that intersect in shared space.
Presences: cities are above all made of those who cross them, live in them or meet there. Sometimes visible, sometimes anonymous or fleeting, these presences give their identity to places and remind us that every space is first and foremost a human story.
Bodies: protected, transformed, adorned, repaired or imagined, they tell a singular story. These photographs evoke different ways of being in the world, through bodies that carry the traces of an identity, a function, a culture or a transformation.
Illusions and utopias: these landscapes blur our reference points. Real or imagined, possible or improbable, they invite us to look at the city differently. Between fiction, dream and anticipation, they open the door to other ways of inhabiting the world.
Objects: they accompany our daily lives, simple or symbolic, they bear witness to our habits, our dreams and our contradictions. In their own way, they also tell the story of the society we are building
Traces: places keep the memory of those who have passed through them. Imprints, hospital rooms, fragments of bodies or vanished silhouettes: these images reveal the marks, visible or invisible, that human beings leave behind them.
Each reproduction is accompanied by a caption presenting the work and its artist, in order to give visitors some keys to interpretation and allow them to discover the richness of the Fonds collection.
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