Résonance events

For 20 years, the Saint-Restitut Contemporary Art Center has been hosting a photojournalism exhibition. This year is an opportunity to bring together 20 photojournalists, showcase their work, and look back at the changes in this ever-evolving profession.

Since 1998, Michel Jeannès and the collective La Mercerie have been exploring social relations using the button as a mediating object. Stated by the artist as "Smallest Common Cultural Object", it becomes revealing of memories and vector of intergenerational links. In the heart of the hospital, this living work invites everyone to tell their story.

In 1976, Robert Filliou proposed shifting the value of art—moving it away from performance, virtuosity, or the market, and toward the human capacity to invent, play, and transform everyday life. This vision resonates particularly strongly with what is known as art singulier or art brut.

The exhibition of Isabelle Monge-Roffarello’s project celebrates living memory, particularly through the photographs of Laurence Papoutchian. Our daily lives, our places, our habits, and our connections come together to form something unique: the identity of Tassin-la-Demi-Lune.

"Art is what makes life more interesting than art." It's astonishing how all of István Pető's work resonates with these words by Robert Filiou. His painting, indeed, abstract yet warm, free yet structured, bold yet never haughty, bursts forth like a furious invitation to live.

Eryka JURA : A guest academic artist who differs greatly from the gallery’s usual exhibition programme “rubs shoulders” with other creators closely associated and inspired by Art Brut

Promenades presents a journey through the work of Pierre Mercier (1946–2016), whose practice combined sculpture, photography, film, language and transmission. Presented at Laroquebrou Castle, the exhibition brings together works, films and installations created between 1980 and 2010.

For the opening of Promenades, Paul Souviron presents a sound performance conceived as an extension of the exhibition experience through listening, movement and perception.

For almost 50 years, Gilbert Brun has photographed the worlds he has crossed, sometimes living in them, looking tirelessly for contact with the people inhabiting them. The exposition presented at the MAC of Pérouge retraces this long itinerary.

Eclats d'Ombre brings together two artists. Jean-Baptiste Martin, an art photographer, works on light. He produces his own film prints. He specializes in black and white. Nadine Bell works with porcelain in a refined approach. She was interested in the techniques acquired in Asia during her multiple residencies, and ancestral know-how.

Galerie Françoise Besson will present Denis Prieur’s exhibition, Souffle Vivant (Living Breath), in the Petite Galerie. Echoing the history of Lyon’s silk workers, Denis Prieur’s work unfolds within a fragile economy—non-productive in the capitalist sense, yet intensely alive—where he will present these silent figures.

PILE proposes an archaeology of the urban ordinary. By turning over paper skins collected from the city's infrastructures, Claire Georgina Daudin reveals the discreet architectures that support urban life and brings the present to the surface as a landscape of ruins in the making.

"The exhibition focuses on the disorder of perception, the limits of imbalance, Marc Chopy's favourite subjects, which he has experimented with by blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture. In different forms, the artist offers new works, spread over all the spaces. [...]"