In 2026, Passerelle ventures beyond its walls. From spring, the contemporary art centre takes up residence at the Manoir de Kerlaouen in Lesneven for the fourth consecutive year, inviting the Frac Bretagne for a new exhibition exploring the question of the gaze and the way we see.
Sometimes we have the feeling of having already lived through a situation, visited a place, seen an image before. The sensation is brief, strange, often impossible to explain. We know it is not a precise memory, yet the feeling persists.
This exhibition takes that familiar experience as its starting point: déjà-vu.
The works on show do not tell new stories. On the contrary, they replay, repeat, and revisit forms, images and gestures we think we recognise. Some seem to come from another time. Others resemble images from films, paintings or collective memory. Yet on closer inspection, something never quite adds up.
Here, déjà-vu is not a mistake. It is a way of looking.
The artists work with what we already carry in our minds: familiar images, recognisable styles, inherited forms. But they shift, slow down, repeat or subtly transform them. This displacement creates unease. The viewer… [read more]
Conceived by Morgane Estève, Collection and Territorial Projects Officer at the Frac Bretagne, and Loïc Le Gall, Director of Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain.
Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain | Manoir de Kerlaouen, 48 rue général de Gaulle, F-29260 Lesneven Exhibition from 18 March to 16 May 2026 — Open Wednesday to Saturday, 2–7 pm (except public holidays) Free admission In partnership with the Ville de Lesneven.