For the Journées du Patrimoine 2023, the MAC/VAL, Val-de-Marne's contemporary art museum, is opening its doors free of charge and inviting us to take part in its many workshops and performances on September 16 and 17.
This year, for the new edition of the Journées du Patrimoine (Heritage Days), the MAC/VAL - the Val-de-Marne museum of contemporary art - invites us to discover its collections, and to take part in workshops suitable for young and old alike. The museum opens its doors free of charge on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September 2023.
For two days, the MAC/VAL will be organizing multi-disciplinary events and offering visitors the chance to explore unusual spaces usually closed to the public!
If you don't know the MAC/VAL, the Journées du Patrimoine are a great opportunity to discover this Val-de-Marne museum! It is the only establishment devoted to artistic creation in France since the 1950s, with 2,500 works purchased by the Fonds Départemental d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, housed in the museum itself. In addition, the MAC/VAL often supports artists by offering them a residency lasting several months.
The museum offers numerous exhibitions throughout the year, as well as workshops, social events, performances, meetings...
On the program for Heritage Days 2023 :
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16
- Discover the MAC VAL reserves
2pm, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm
Exceptionally, the MAC VAL is opening the doors to its reserves. Usually invisible and unknown to the public, the reserves play an active role in the life of the museum. It is within these walls that the museum's dynamism draws its inspiration, and where most of the work applied to the collection is carried out: study, research, inventory, registration, cataloguing, consultation, loan, restoration, maintenance, packaging, photographic photography, preparation of exhibitions....
Same-day registration at reception, subject to availability.
- "The Reader" and "The Penitent
2pm-6pm, continuous
Performances by Mehryl Ferri Levisse Mehryl Ferri Levisse, artist in the "Histoires vraies" exhibition, distills colorful, whimsical presences, beyond or below gender and identity. These characters to be activated inhabit the exhibition spaces, catching the eye and sharpening the ear.
- "Emotional landscapes
15h
Artist's book workshop with Anne Brégeaut Anne Brégeaut, artist of the "Histoires vraies" exhibition, proposes to create a mental cartography in the form of a leporello, based on a psychology test attributed to Lacan, from which each element will be told, visualized and then transcribed into drawings. Together, these elements will represent a personal way of being in the world for each workshop participant.
Parents and children aged 5 and over, duration: approx. 1 h 30
Prior booking required: cdm.macval@macval.fr or 01 43 91 14 64
- "The Guardian
3pm and 5pm
Cie Betula Lenta - Maxence Rey
In the heart of the MAC VAL garden, a mysterious Guardian, a hybrid sculptural creature, gently watches over nature. Meet her on an intimate journey to the edge of visible and invisible forces. Born of Maxence Rey's moving encounter in 2019 with the installation "The Guardian" by Lyon-based artist Mina, the performance is inspired by this enigmatic, anthropomorphic, poetic and powerful sculptural figure.
Maxence Rey gives it life, body, skin and movement. With her accomplices, Nicolas Losson and Julie Galopin, she invites us to wander into our inner forests, to pay subtle attention to the living, to its magnificence, to the way it inhabits us.
Open to all, duration 50 minutes
Same-day registration at reception, subject to availability.
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17
- Discover the MAC VAL reserves
2pm, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm
Exceptionally, the MAC VAL is opening the doors to its reserves. Usually invisible and unknown to the public, the reserves play an active role in the life of the museum. It is within these walls that the museum's dynamism draws its inspiration, and where most of the work applied to the collection is carried out: study, research, inventory, registration, cataloguing, consultation, loan, restoration, maintenance, packaging, photographic photography, preparation of exhibitions....
Same-day registration at reception, subject to availability.
- "The Reader" and "The Penitent
2pm-6pm, continuous
Performances by Mehryl Ferri Levisse Mehryl Ferri Levisse, artist in the "Histoires vraies" exhibition, distills colorful, whimsical presences, beyond or below gender and identity. These activated characters inhabit the exhibition spaces, catching the eye and sharpening the ear.
- "Les Récits d'Yves, Act III, The Picoudouks
2pm-6pm, continuous
Performance by Vincent Volkart Vincent Volkart, artist in the "Histoires vraies" exhibition, draws us into a world of zany hucksterism. The sculpture comes to life for the third act of this little opera. The Picoudouks are there. The manipulations, permutations and other gesticulations can begin. Things are about to happen. But what? And when?
- "I'm going to tell you my life story
15h
Collective performance imagined by Esther Ferrer, artist in the exhibition "Histoires vraies" What is a life? What does it mean to tell (oneself)? It's liable to make a fuss. "The subject of this performance is to tell one's life story, in the language of one's choice. It can be told by any number of people. All versions are possible, the only requirement being that you tell your life story. Everyone can tell it the way they want.
- "Chorale Mix: Utopia and the talkative t-shirts"
16h
Performance by Véronique Hubert, artist in the exhibition "Histoires vraies" (True Stories) This is the story of real people who come to sing fake songs - well, almost fake songs.
- "YOLO, Carpe Diem
17h
Performance drag by Jordan Roger Jordan Roger , artist in the "True Stories" exhibition, bears witness, on behalf of an entire generation, to a world where we are constantly being predicted the apocalypse. He tells us about the religious and family experiences that led him to flee his old life and start a new one. The solution Jordan shares to prevent the end of the world is virulent and drastic, and lipsynched on The Little Mermaid, Lana del Rey, Shrek 2 and Kate Bush.
Running time: 25 minutes
A great program to discover without delay! And take a look at the events taking place at various cultural and historical sites in the Val-de-Marne.
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