Chaumussay appears through old photographs and postcards in Le temps suspendu, an exhibition devoted to the commune’s past. Black-and-white views bring together images that once circulated as cards and others preserved as photographs. The collection forms a village album, inviting attention to the places recorded and to the ways earlier photographers chose to frame them.
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George Sand’s Addresses: From Paris to Berry
George Sand’s addresses become a route through her life in Jocelyne BARON’s exhibition. Photographs, old postcards, maps and documents follow her from Parisian homes to the places where she grew up and lived in Berry. Sand’s own texts accompany the journey, linking physical settings with the writing they helped shape and with changing views of those places.
Ferrières: Four Decades of Heritage in Photographs
Four decades of research and preservation come together in the anniversary exhibition of the Association Recherches, Sauvegarde et Patrimoine Ferriérois. Photographs draw attention to the Gâtinais heritage it has worked to protect. Archives and discoveries add the story of that continuing effort, placing the association’s accumulated knowledge alongside the places and traces it studies.
Maintenon Through Artists’ Eyes and Archive Images
Artists’ views of Maintenon meet photographs from its past in an exhibition produced with the Fondation Mansart. Paintings, drawings and engravings interpret the château, town and surrounding landscapes. Older and archival photographs add a documentary counterpoint, allowing changes in the place to be read alongside the ways artists have chosen to picture it.
Levroux’s Heritage Through Residents’ Photographs
Landscapes and scenes of daily life appear through residents’ lenses in this participatory exhibition in Levroux. Photographs from the community contest join older and more recent views of the Levroux Boischaut Champagne territory. Buildings, details and familiar atmospheres become a collective portrait, shaped by what the people who live there choose to notice and preserve.
L’arbre photographique: Imagined Families in Pictures
Old photographs become the beginnings of an invented family in L’arbre photographique. Children aged nine to fourteen handle images from different periods, arranging characters together on a shared timeline. Gwenola Furic, a specialist in photographic conservation and restoration, leads the workshop, combining attention to fragile visual heritage with a collaborative exercise in imagining lives.
Laure Hinckel: Châteaux de Beauce in Black and White
Grain silos become the castles of Beauce in Laure Hinckel’s black-and-white photographs. Metal surfaces, towering forms and stores of wheat give these agricultural structures a monumental presence amid the fields. Shown through the Chemin des Arts programme, the series studies the overlap between rural work and industrial architecture in a landscape shaped by grain.
Karen Knorr’s Animal Worlds at Azay-le-Rideau
Animals enter the furnished world of Azay-le-Rideau through Karen Knorr’s photographs. Her retrospective sets those images in dialogue with historic décor, allowing unexpected presences to alter the way familiar interiors are seen. Memory and fiction run through the encounter, as photographic scenes and the château’s material surroundings quietly play against one another.
Kergoat Heritage Programme: Photography and Art
Pas de vagues, by Marine Penhoët and Mélanie Peduzzi, draws on Berthe Riou’s photographic archives to explore seascapes and Breton women. Keridwen Gilbert examines rural labour and farming through work with farmer Romain Marec. The Kergoat heritage programme also includes Magnolia, an artwork by Andreas Kressig created for the Sonj festival.
Patrimoines bretons: Guy Griffoul’s Photographs
Guy Griffoul explores Breton heritage through three photographic series. The Celtic Circle of Poudouvre appears alongside Dinan’s half-timbered houses and trawlers, bringing people, architecture and maritime work into the exhibition. Based in Dinan, the photographer is drawn to fleeting moments and Brittany’s particular colours and light.