Paxxh" exhibition

In 2024, the Francès Foundation celebrates its 15th anniversary. To mark the occasion, it is presenting a major exhibition in two venues: PAXXH.

At the same time, in Senlis, the foundation is presenting PAXXH, a two-part exhibition exploring the vital movement that animates every being, probing its fragility and power, but above all its potential for transformation and sublimation. Between presence and absence, human and animal, brutality and delicacy, the works of Roy Adzak, Mari Katayama, Hans Op de Beeck, Joana Vasconcelos and Anne Wenzel cultivate paradoxes, nuance and multiplicity. They respond to the urgent need to offer a time for contemplation and reflection on our relationship with the world, with otherness, with our environment and with our memory. Drawing on theories developed around complex thinking and the ecology of attention, PAXXH looks to animality, harmony with nature and the interdependence of systems and societies to find the keys to our humanity.
The highlight of the exhibition is Kader Attia's Ghost installation, revived at the heart of the Espace Saint-Pierre in Senlis.

Faced with the excesses of humanity and the resistance we can put up against them, depicted in the XXH exhibition, PAXXH aims to put the human being back at the centre of an interdependent system, in the image of Ghost, inseparable from the place, the gesture and the gaze that contemplates it.