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Agn\u00e8s de Cayeux FR<\/sup><\/strong>SILA<\/em><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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October 30 through January 17, 2027<\/strong>Wednesday through Saturday <\/strong>2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salt Storehouse<\/strong><\/strong>Avignon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legal Notices<\/summary>\n

“Sila” is presented in co-production with CHRONIQUES. The exhibition (D\u00e9)Jouer les mondes is produced by Le Grenier \u00e0 sel. Curated by: Isabelle Arvers and V\u00e9ronique Baton, with assistance from Zo\u00e9 Neyreneuf<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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SILA is a poetic, immersive work that blends documentary and fiction: a Greenlandic experience that offers a counterpoint to the masculine, heroic imagery of polar expeditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agn\u00e8s de Cayeux and her collaborators invite us to journey through real and virtual polar worlds, following in the footsteps of women artists, scientists, and activists who have explored this exceptional Arctic region from the 19th century to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Kalaallisut, <\/em>Greenland’s official language <\/em>, the word “sila” refers to natural elements such as wind, air, or weather, but also to a life force that governs the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credits<\/summary>\n

A CHRONIQUES CR\u00c9ATIONS platform project.Written and directed by Agn\u00e8s de Cayeux, starring M\u00e9lanie Courtinat, Laura Mannelli, Aude Guivarc’h, and Ma\u00eblla Micka\u00eblle. A production by: DARK EUPHORIA – POULPE BLEU PRODUCTION – JAXA PRODUCTION INC. In co-production with Le Grenier \u00e0 Sel, Le Safran – Sc\u00e8ne conventionn\u00e9e, Artzoyd Studios, SIANA, and the University of Evry Paris-Saclay. With support from the National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), the SODEC FilmFund Luxembourg Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur Region, in partnership with CNC Pictanovo, as part of the New Media Fund with support from the Haut-de-France region, and in partnership with CNC Montpellier M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e M\u00e9tropole<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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As part of the exhibition (Un)playing the Worlds<\/em> of the Salt Granary<\/strong> This group exhibition is dedicated to artists who use video games as a space for critical experimentation and poetic subversion. Through a series of interactive installations, independent games, sculptures made from discarded electronic devices, and transmedia narratives, the exhibition questions the rules, interfaces, and virtual spaces to reveal what they say about some of our contemporary representations, such as power relations, digital extractivism, colonial narratives, and alternative imaginaries. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Agn\u00e8s de Cayeux<\/h2>\n
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Agn\u00e8s de Cayeux sometimes compulsively observes our online world. Just like the rest of us. From the Virginia Tech massacre to the Cyborgiennes, she crafts texts from afar: <\/span>In my room<\/span><\/i>, literary rooms produced by Arte and superimposed onto fragments of women\u2019s bodies filmed by the women themselves\u2014 <\/span>Alissa<\/span><\/i>, a programmed AI creature, a literary figure developed for the Jeu de Paume\u2014 <\/span>The Case of the Hippocampus<\/span><\/i>, an immersive and literary work created for the Venice Music Biennale. D <\/span>Since 2010, <\/span>Agn\u00e8s de Cayeux <\/span>has been exploring <\/span>in situ<\/span><\/i> Arctic issues: archival matters, family legacies linked to the French polar expeditions of the 1950s, and eco-technological, postcolonial, and feminist issues. She was in residence in Greenland in 2011 as part of a Villa M\u00e9dicis Hors les Murs program, and was subsequently supported by the CNAP in 2015. Her Arctic installations have been featured at the Centre Pompidou (2017), the Centre d\u2019art La Panac\u00e9e in Montpellier (2015), and most recently at the SIANA Biennale in Paris-Saclay (2025). Together with performer Ma\u00eblla Micka\u00eblle, they traveled along the west coast of Greenland in 2023, filming the dancer\u2019s movements\u2014from the immutable icebergs of the Ilulissat Fjord to the futuristic forms of the Nuuk data center. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32352,"menu_order":0,"template":"","edition":[140],"type_oeuvre":[28,25,95,117],"class_list":["post-32408","oeuvre","type-oeuvre","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oeuvre\/32408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oeuvre"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oeuvre"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=32408"},{"taxonomy":"type_oeuvre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_oeuvre?post=32408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}