Exhibition from 27 May to 30 September 2025, in partnership between the Chapelle Saint-Jacques Centre d’art contemporain de Saint-Gaudens and the Musée archéologique.
Free admission from 10am to 6.30pm
Imagine an echo from space to time, a resonance that exists by observing a rock, marble.
This rock is a mountain: its slopes the raw material for ancient sculptures, its mass a quarry criss-crossed by galleries.
This rock is a mountain: its slopes the raw material for ancient sculptures, its mass a quarry criss-crossed by galleries. A narrative is established through extraction.
Industry extracts a stone from its geological stratum, archaeology extracts an artefact from the earth, art extracts an object from its context.
Matter-use-space make up a block of history that leaves traces: the mechanisms of art interpret these forms so that the narrative of the present time allows for fiction through misappropriation.
To show this crossroads of worlds is to engage in active observation: to document, take away and install.
It’s a journey through a stage of work where photography meets the trace: associating an archaeological collection with its place of origin, making imprints that capture time, exposing a rock that captures light.
This exhibition is curated by Edouard Decam and Théophile Seyrig, and presented by the Musée archéologique in partnership with the Chapelle Saint-Jacques centre d’art contemporain. It receives production support from the Occitanie Region and a Barcelona Producció de La Capella research grant.
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