As part of a Double-Sens* project in partnership with Alphonse Allais Middle School and the Eugène-Boudin Museum in Honfleur, seventh-grade students designed a two-part exhibition: one at their school and the other at the museum. The students were actively involved in the project from the selection of works to the opening reception.
The first part took place in June 2025 in the exhibition hall of Alphonse Allais Middle School. After selecting works from the Frac Normandie collection, the students worked on communication and mediation (guided tours, labels, booklet) for their exhibition with their classmates, teachers, and families. The second part is fully integrated into the exhibition Erik Satie: Symphonic Spirit, Artistic Courage at the Eugène Boudin Museum.
The museum offered the students a space in which they could create an extension of the school exhibition. The initial corpus is thus augmented by a set of works from the Frac Normandie collection. Entitled Salon Works, this exhibition, conceived as an interior space, plays with the boundaries between artwork, craftsmanship, functional design, and domestic objects. In this intimate salon dedicated to listening to music, the works become audio furniture, kapla armchairs, composite floor lamps, painted rugs, and hedgehog slippers.
Like background music, the exhibition Œuvres de salon also aims to “contribute to life in the same way as a particular conversation, a painting in a gallery, or the chair on which one is sitting, or not sitting.” (Pierre Bertin on background music).
*With Double Sens, the Frac Normandie invites a group of pupils or students to design an exhibition that will be presented at their school. They are the protagonists of the exhibition, from the selection of works to the presentation to the public.