Anne Brégeaut's 'Au pays du jamais-jamais' at Maison des arts de Malakoff

Anne Brégeaut's exhibition 'Au pays du jamais-jamais' runs from January 17 to March 27, 2013, at Maison des arts de Malakoff. The show blends childhood memories with adult reminiscences, featuring icons like Peter Pan, Little Red Riding Hood, and Casimir to evoke a subtle disillusionment with youthful utopias. Brégeaut creates a visual, sensory, and mnemonic labyrinth that invites viewers to lose themselves, fostering silent shared intimacy through a fantastical iconography and radiant color palette. She explores dichotomies such as reality/fiction, dream/nightmare, and conscious/unconscious, establishing shifts, impossibilities, and infinite possibilities. The brain motif recurs throughout, mounted on wheels, dotted with plastic fir trees, or transformed into a tourist landscape. The house motif parallels the brain, presenting fragmented, impenetrable, uninhabitable homes that render the comforting hearth uncomfortable. 'L'Heure bleue' embodies a double contradiction: conceptually, the habitat no longer protects; materially, a wooden table cut in half by a partition is covered with black modeling clay, with two mobile cups above suggesting impossible communication. Recurring road and island motifs objectify memory, with dreams and memories stranded on isolated islets. 'Paysages oubliés' on wheels imply movement, forming a drifting archipelago of intimate memory. Brégeaut resists oblivion and death with energy and lucidity. The exhibition is curated by Julie Crenn.