Description
The Ingres Bourdelle Museum is hosting until May 2027 a visual and sound installation by visual artist Françoise Pétrovitch in collaboration with video artist Hervé Plumet.
The installation entitled Mémoires vives (Living Memories) was specifically designed to complement the unique atmosphere of the Black Prince Room.
Like quotations, Françoise Pétrovitch's drawings, directly inspired by Ingres's work, are projected into the medieval room. The resulting luminous ambiance helps to reveal the artist's chromatic palette, composed of delicate nuances or, conversely, vivid and strident tones. Visitors are invited to discover a strange universe in which large, hybrid, anthropomorphic creatures appear and disappear, returning to their floating world, born from the artist's imagination.
On the museum's second floor, in the Ingres drawing room, several beautiful sheets by the artist are on display. They are placed in some of the drawers usually dedicated to Ingres's drawings, thus revealing the profound connection between the visual artist, the practice of drawing, and the master of Montauban.
