Joana Vasconcelos is presenting L'Absurde et le Rêve with Arne Quinze at La Citadelle – Centre d'art & Musée, from June 20 to October 31, 2026.
By intertwining the absurd and the dreamlike in both his writings and visual works, Jean Cocteau blurred the boundaries between reality and imagination. His films, such as The Testament of Orpheus, filmed in Villefranche, along with his plays and drawings, continually evoke the oneiric impulses of the subconscious. It is within this realm of the irrational, the mysterious, and an unapologetic surrealism that Joana Vasconcelos and Arne Quinze find a profound resonance.
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