EXPOSITION “Skies, lands, mers, lights”

Sara Ouhaddou and Younes Rahmoun

At the crossroads of elements and worlds, the Mediterranean composes a landscape where the shapes, beliefs and actions have continued to transform. Inland Sea, home of civilizations, crossing space, it is a moving geography where ancient memories and contemporary renaissances intertwine.
Skies, lands, mers, lights proposes to explore this heritage in perpetual evolution through an atlas of metamorphoses : the skies as mirrors of imagination, lands as living archives, water as a matter of circulation and transmission, fires as the primary energy of breath and creation.

Guest artists, Sara Ouhaddou and Younes Rahmoun, activate this atlas by reinventing ancient gestures — from weaving to glass lamps, from Sufi rituals to everyday cosmologies — which they move into the present to open new forms of dialogue between the shores. Their work, rooted in craftsmanship, spirituality and experimentation, composes a Mediterranean story where tradition and contemporaneity illuminate each other.
Between circulation of know-how, mutations of materials and reactivation of vernacular motifs, the exhibition sketches a fluid Mediterranean, crossing, reinvented : a sea of ​​shared transformations.

Commissioner's Office : Véronique Collard-Bovy

This project led by the Châteauvert Contemporary Art Center of the Provence Verte Agglomeration is made possible thanks to the support of the French Institute as part of the Mediterranean Season, de la Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelle Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur et de la Région Sud Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur.