When art abolishes borders

A film by Véronique Godé & Damien Faure

Produced by Gilles Coudert

Soon available in DVD

Soon available in VOD

Year of production: 2025

Duration : 52 min.

Version française

The film by Véronique Godé and Damien Faure, narrated by Charles Berling, depicts the dialogue between contemporary art and heritage within the Château d’Oiron, a Centre des monuments nationaux, located in the Deux-Sèvres department of Poitou.

It is in this exceptional setting that Jean-Hubert Martin has created a gigantic cabinet of curiosities with unique works from the collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques.

The collective work by artist Christian Boltanski incorporates several hundred portraits of Oiron schoolchildren, photographed 25 years ago, creating a bridge between past and present. Similarly, this place forges strong and lasting bonds with the local inhabitants through the participatory work of artist Raoul Marek, where 150 guests gather each year for a ritual dinner. Finally, artist Laurent-Marie Joubert celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Château d’Oiron collection with a collaborative work featuring South African female muralists and millennial residents, illustrating the power of art to create social connections.

This unique space demonstrates the extent to which art contributes to breaking down local, territorial, and international borders, as well as breaking down psychological barriers between the public and the museum, and building bridges between works of the past and the most contemporary art.

With the interventions of Jean-Hubert Martin, curator, Jean-Luc Meslet, delegated administrator of the castle, Marie Lavandier, President of the Centre des monuments nationaux, Béatrice Salmon, Director of the Centre national des arts plastiques and with the artists Raoul Marek, Laurent-Marie Joubert as well as the volunteers, the participants, the members of the associations and the visitors of the castle.

With the participation of France Télévisions

With the support of the Centre des monuments nationaux and of the Centre national des arts plastiques

With the participation of Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée.

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