CAC Brétigny

“Bascules”
Off-site season 2024—2025
Curators: The CAC Brétigny team (Zélia Bajaj, Milène Denécheau, Léana Doualot, Esther Gobin-Brassart, Elisa Klein, Danaé Leroy, Coraline Perrin, Marie Plagnol, Ekaterina Tsyrlina)

“Ainsi font, font, font”
With Ariadna Guiteras, Camille Juthier, Louise Perrussel, Chloé Serre and Marine Zonca

La Ferme, Marolles-en-Hurepoix
07.06—19.07.25
Open from Tuesday to Friday, 2:00-6:00 p.m. and on Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. and 2:00-6:00 p.m.

Opening
Saturday 7^th June, 2:00-6:00 pm

To mark the opening of the last exhibition of the 2024—2025 off-site season, differents activities invite you to dive in the art centre's programme!

All afternoon
 

“Ainsi font, font, font”
Exhibition visit

With Ariadna Guiteras, Camille Juthier, Louise Perrussel, Chloé Serre and Marine Zonca

In this last exhibition of the “Bascules” season, the artists explore the playful and pedagogical possibilities opened up by the notion of design for children. They invite visitors of all ages to interact with their works, so that everyone continues to learn by playing and doing. The exhibition space is punctuated by a variety of activities, ranging from play to relaxation, and encouraging the experience and creativity of participants.
 

“Secret reflections”
Early years artistic workshop 

Designed by Camille Juthier

The artist offers toddlers the opportunity to dive into the heart of nature by following the growth of a textile flower. Through an interactive sensory installation combining tactile exploration, natural sounds and immersive storytelling, the children will discover through touch, listening and imagination the stages of a plant's growth.

For children aged 6 to 36 months.

 

“Transmissions”
Sound installation

Margot Bernard in collaboration with *Duuu—radio
Curators: Elena Lespes Muñoz (2020—2022), Marie Plagnol (2022—today)

“Transmissions” is a web radio designed “for,” “by,” and “with” the art center’s many different users, in collaboration with invited artists. A place for coming together to exchange ideas, this broadcast invites school visitors to give voice to what they think and feel about the center’s shows, featured works, and artists, since 2020. These anti-institutional archives of the art centre’s programme can be listened to again in a sound installation designed by Margot Bernard, the artist affiliated with the project this year.

With Théo Robine-Langlois, Laura Burucoa, Yves Bartlett, Sonia Saroya & Edouard Sufrin and Margot Bernard.

 

“The ABCC of CACB”
Display

Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé
Curator: Céline Poulin

To conclude their residency, which began in 2016, Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier will present around ten signs selected from the 900 that constitute “The ABCC of CACB”. Printed on large-format posters and hung intermittently on some of the walls of Marolles-en-Hurepoix, these signs are placed in a new context, while revisiting the idea of collecting for passers-by, residents of Marolles and visitors of the “Ainsi font, font, font” exhibition.



At 3:30 pm, 4:00 pm and 4:30 pm
 

“Exercises in counter-memory”
Performed workshop

With Marine Zonca

In the exhibition “Ainsi font, font, font”, the artist presents a space where we can go to gather our thoughts. For this performed workshop, she asks visitors to memorise, with the help of mnemonic techniques, a list of words drawn from the 200 terms censored by Donald Trump’s government.

A collective recital will take place at 5 pm.



Margot Bernard (born in 1996) lives and works in Paris. A graduate of Rennes 2 University in 2017 and the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2024, she explores what is at play in shared creation, perceiving the work of art as a meeting site rather than an end in itself. Her work navigates between editorial production and a self-taught sound practice, through works in which the act of addressing and the relationship with the public are considered from the outset. The expanded book and the oral archive blend and complement one another. Investigation, collection, audio production and publishing mediums are some of the tools she particularly cherishes, and she is also fond of assembling a group around a table. Since 2024, she has been in residency at Ô Léonie (Paris) and Mains d’Œuvres Hors les Murs (Saint-Ouen).

Camille Juthier (born in 1990) lives and works between Aubervilliers and Clermont-Ferrand, where she teaches at the École supérieure d’art de Clermont Métropole. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire, she practices sculpture, sensory installation, video, text, and performance. Her practice crosses the fields of crafting and design, in order to produce forms that support alternative histories. In 2023, she was a beneficiary of the FoRTE program with Glassbox Paris, where she completed a residency and presented a solo exhibition. In 2024, she was awarded the Prix Art Ensemble by the Gulbenkian Foundation and the CENTQUATRE-PARIS, and received support from Mécènes du Sud. Exhibitions include the 64^th Salon de Montrouge (2019), the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2023) and the Frac Île-de-France (2024).

Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé are graphic and type designers. They lived in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy from 2008 to 2018, and are now based in Paris and Marseille. They were fellows at the French Academy in Rome—Villa Medici in 2014-2015, and are now graphic designers in residency at CAC Brétigny and CRAC Alsace. Coline Sunier (FR/CH) is part of the teaching staff of institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse  (isdaT), and Charles Mazé (FR) is part of Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT) in Nancy. They cofounded the publishing house <o> future <o> in 2009.

Marine Zonca (born in 1993) lives and works in Paris. She is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. Her practice combines sculpture, drawing, and animation, as well as historically situated techniques like fresco, to produce anachronisms. At the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, she conducts research into 19^th-century mnemonic practices. Her work has appeared in several exhibitions, including at KOMMET in Lyon (2020), DOC! in Paris (2020), La Serre in Saint-Etienne (2022) and La Tôlerie in Clermont-Ferrand (2023).