In the centre of the vaulted room, on a table, lies an angel made of driftwood, surrounded by winged creatures reenacting the Ascension. Unless it is the Fall of Icarus, or maybe of... All around them, in alcoves, stone masks seeming to come straight out of the walls are watching those pagan and sacred figures made of bone and wood, of feathers and branches, of bugs and molds. Perhaps are they also watching the visitors? Those visitors caught in the metamorphoses of this “installation-fable” which, through a process of successive grafts and combinations of opposites, blows apart the mineral, vegetal, and animal realms to create a unique one, impossible to define and qualify. Those visitors caught in the twists and turns of a larger supernatural and poetic device which begins, as soon as they enter the room, with the discovery of a collection of sculptures and scenes that are like so many fetishes and amulets. Conceived by Johnny Lebigot as a sensory image that questions the world and its limitations, this new exhibition, “in irrepressible expansion,” which draws its inspiration directly from Avignon and is in dialogue with works exhibited in the Musée du Petit Palais and the Musée Pierre-de-Luxembourg in Villeneuve lez Avignon, is reminiscent of a chamber of wonders, a cabinet of curiosities, those places once dedicated to the genies of times where belief was never divorced from reason, knowledge, and imagination.
Distribution
Conception and production Johnny Lebigot
Lights Matthieu Ferry
Production
Production Festival d'Avignon, Johnny Lebigot, Centre culturel André Malraux scène nationale de Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, La Revue Éclair - Corine Miret et Stéphane Olry, La Manufacture Centre dramatique national de Nancy
With the help of Théâtre de L'Aquarium, Château de la Roche Guyon and théâtre L'Échangeur