Full Moon

As part of Résonance, the associated platform of the 2026 Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Les Roches Contemporary Art Space (EAC Les Roches) presents Full Moon, a day of exhibition openings, musical performances, and outdoor readings bringing together visual artists, musicians, and writers around a shared question: the forms that emerge at the margins of the visible and beyond established categories.

The event begins at 3:00 pm with the opening of two exhibitions. The first is dedicated to the ceramic sculptures of Arlette and Marc Simon, whose works seem to emerge from an indeterminate time, poised between memory,myth, and transformation.

The second, a group exhibition, features works by Blanche Berthelier, Cyrille Cauvet, Vincent Ciciliato, Pascaline de Glo de Besse, Franck Lestard, Arlette Simon, Marc Simon, and Yannick Vey. Taking hybrid creatures,monsters, contemporary vanitas, and metamorphosis as its point of departure, the exhibition brings together drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculptures that give form to ambiguous presences. Human figures in transition, animal apparitions, fragmented bodies, composite beings, and fantastic visions compose a landscape where the marvellous coexists with the uncanny. Far from merely representing the monstrous, these works question the shifting boundaries between the realms of living beings, unstable identities, and the many forms of coexistence between the visible and the invisible.

At 4:30 pm, the collective L'Autre Musique will occupy both the indoor and outdoor spaces of EAC Les Roches with a series of concerts and performances under the title Spectres (Spectres). Playing on the multiple meanings of the word, the project connects the musical notion of the spectrum—the representation of the components of a sound—with a broader reflection on the presences that continue to haunt the present. Drawing in particular on the writings of Georges Didi-Huberman and Jacques Derrida, these performances explore traces, survivals, and residues that permeate artworks, narratives, and cultural forms. Rather than treating the ghost as an immaterial figure, Spectres focuses on its discreet yet persistent materiality: fragments of memory, lingering images,inherited signs, and forms that continue to shape the present. The performances examine the many mediations through which we perceive reality, as well as the processes by which certain figures, narratives, or commodities acquire a presence that exceeds their material existence.

Within this context, the works in the group exhibition also appear as haunted forms. Hybrid creatures, monstrous figures, contemporary vanitas, and beings in transformation become witnesses to buried histories, enduring mythologies, and futures still in the making. They embody ambiguous presences situated at the threshold between appearance and disappearance, memory and invention.

At 5:30 pm, visitors will be invited to gather in a nearby woodland clearing for a series of performative readings. The texts will extend this reflection on spectres, survivals, and metamorphoses, bringing voice, landscape, and imagination into dialogue beneath the light of the full moon. Together, the exhibitions, musical performances, and readings form a single journey in which art becomes a space of attentiveness to the visible and invisible traces that shape our relationship to the world.