SPECTRES

Echoing Passer d’un rêve à l’autre, SPECTRES proposes a festival of contemporary art and innovative music at Espace Notre-Dame in Saint-Chamond. Over three days, from 23 to 25 October 2026, this former deconsecrated church becomes a place of passage, listening, images and apparitions. The project brings together, within the same space, a contemporary art exhibition, sound installations, performances, innovative music concerts and workshops open to visitors. It aims to create a living, accessible and collective situation, where audiences can move between artworks, listen to the venue differently, meet the artists and directly experience certain artistic practices. The notion of “spectre” is understood in its double meaning: a ghostly presence, but also the material decomposition of sound and light. The works and events explore what remains, returns or insists within the present: traces, sound memories, haunted images, resonances, fragments of narratives and invisible forms of perception. SPECTRES is therefore not only an exhibition, nor simply a series of concerts, but a moment of encounter between art, music, heritage and audiences. Workshops, conversations and mediation moments will accompany the event, encouraging all visitors to discover contemporary creation through direct experience.