La Vallée: Fabrice Hyber’s School-Exhibition at the Fondation Cartier
From December 8, 2022 to April 30, 2023, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain transforms into a classroom to host the work of Fabrice Hyber. Entitled The Valley, this major monographic exhibition is devoted to the work of the French artist and reveals his free and vivid consciousness through his paintings. . Composed of some sixty pieces, of which almost fifteen were conceived specifically for this occasion, the exhibition takes a particular configuration that echoes the spirit of his work. Hyber creates a school open to all hypotheses at the heart of the Fondation Cartier, visitors are invited to explore the different “classrooms” according to a layout that follows the artist’s meandering thoughts. Classes open to all visitors will be offered by guides specializing in subjects as diverse as measurements, the shape of fruits, the hybridization of bodies, weather, sport, games, digestion, and even transformation. Additionally, an ambitious residency program of classes, co-organized with partner schools, as well as “evening classes,” are also accessible in the form of podcasts. By bringing together a chef and a gardener, an athlete and a philosopher, a climatologist and a writer, a choreographer and a sexologist, as well as a landscape architect and an art historian, The Valley brings together various forms of knowledge, reflecting the range of Hyber’s artistic practice. During the inaugural events of the La Vallée exhibition, we encountered Sophie Calle, Chris Dercon, Nathalie Obadia, Christophe Leribault, Jean-Max Colard and Guy Savoy among other personalities.
Photos: Michael Huard et Jean Picon
