Dimensions variables / Doormats, potatoes, tarp, water, variable dimensions.
Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Michel Blazy, Six Pieds sur terre. Une exposition pour les pieds, Le Portique, Le Havre, 2022. Photo Rebecca Fanuele
Des patates is a contemporary art exhibition bringing together the work of artists from different generations and nationalities, united by a shared love of the potato.
Behind this tuber from the Andes — the first specimens of which are said to have been cultivated in France in the Ardèche — lies a wealth of stories: tales of survival, migration, financial hardship, and damaged land. But the potato is also the joy of shared meals and forms of resistance that run underground before sprouting into works of art.
Spread across two floors of the Château, the exhibition is accompanied by a programme combining performances and tastings, connected to the local territory and beyond.
Curators: Simon Bruneel-Millon and Clémentine Planche, assisted by Jeanne Aubert
The exhibition benefits from in-kind sponsorship from “Les Soeurs Patates” (Domaine Adnot), Mr. Gérard Chapelle (GAEC de “l’Alambre”), and Mr. Baptuste Teyssier.
With: Pilar Albarracín, Alice Allenet, Ziad Antar, Michel Blazy, Brassaï, Mégane Brauer, Marcel Broodthaers, Lucas Chanoine, Elia David, Aurélie Ferruel et Florentine Guédon, Valerie Geissbühler Pacheco, Alain Guiraudie, HaYoung, Jacqueline de Jong, Hanna Nagel, Raphaël-Bachir Osman, Serge Paillard, Giuseppe Penone, Sigmar Polke, Bruno Serralongue, Shimabuku, SMITH, Rozy Tergemina Sapelkine et Agnès Varda