Le Grenier à sel
The Grenier à sel is a multidisciplinary venue specialised in visual and performing arts. Its programme, including residencies and workshops, explores the connections between arts, science, and technologies.
The Grenier à sel is a multidisciplinary venue specialised in visual and performing arts. Its programme, including residencies and workshops, explores the connections between arts, science, and technologies.
Programme
The future is already here
The second part of the ‘Symptoms of the Living’ trilogy, this exhibition looks at the relationship between man and machine, against a backdrop of increasing deployment of artificial intelligence and a blurring of the boundaries between humanity and robotics, between flesh and code. How are artists questioning the relationship with the interfaces that regulate our lives today? Whether they see them as liberating or enslaving, useful or threatening, they constantly mirror the fears and hopes of our times.
The exhibition brings together 12 artists from different backgrounds and as many artistic productions from a variety of practices (interactive installation, automaton, video, photography, robotics, animation, VR, etc.). In turn allegorical, critical, poetic or simply playful, these works question man's own identity, his physicality and his future, from obsolescence to transhumanism. They invite us to lose ourselves in a place where science and imagination are intimately intertwined.
With Donatien Aubert – France Cadet – Thierry Cohen – Heather Dewey-Hagborg – Bastien Faudon – Mathieu Gafsou – Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos – Maxime Matthys – Julien Prévieux – Stelarc – Varvara & Mar – Filipe Vilas-Boas
Access
Le Grenier à sel
2, rue Rempart Saint-Lazare
84000 Avignon
0033 4 32 74 05 31
legrenierasel-avignon.fr
Wednesday to Saturday, 2pm to 6pm.
Free admission.
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WALKS & HERITAGE
• La navette fluviale : cross the Rhône for free from the Pont d'Avignon to the Île de la Barthelasse with the river shuttle. On the other bank, enjoy beautiful walks with views of the Pont d’Avignon, the ramparts or the Palais des Papes.
• Musée du Petit Palais : a siginificant art collection of Italian paintings, Avignonese sculptures and paintings from the Ecole d’Avignon.
• Musée Calvet : the Musée Calvet collections comprise archaeology, decorative arts, ethnography or fine arts.
• Maison Jean Vilar : an exhibition, archival and research centre, a place for encounters and entertainments in keeping with the popular theatre spirit.
CINEMA & BOOKS
• Utopia Manutention : an arthouse cinema at the foot of the Palais des Papes, with a restaurant.
• La Mémoire du Monde : a bookshop combining literature and art with a selection of small publishers and other rare texts.
• L’Eau Vive : this cosy bookshop for children holds creative workshops, readings, and book signings.
PLACES TO STAY
• L’Hôtel de l’Europe : one of the most ancient hotel in France, in an ideal place where you can have a drink.
• Le Lieu : a charming guesthouse and a restaurant in a place full of history and stories, a Cordeliers convent in the 13th century and a bourgeois house in the 18th and 19th centuries.
PLACES TO EAT
• Le Violette : inventive cuisine combining local products with flavours from elsewhere in the shade of century-old plane trees, far from the hustle and bustle of the city.
• Subito : simple recipes and fresh products for Italian cuisine lovers.
• Come a Roma : delicious Roman pizzas served with sunny tones.
• Bella Ciao : an utopian bakery in downtown Avignon offering different varieties of breads, sandwiches and pizzas.
