PRESENTATION
From June 19 to November 1, 2026, the Centre des monuments nationaux invites artist Sara Ouhaddou to invest the towers and ramparts of Aigues-Mortes as part of the program Un artiste, un monument and the Saison Méditerranée 2026.
Through a series of glass creations, garlands, stained-glass windows and animal amulets, the artist unfolds a sensitive journey in three towers of the monument and at the Porte des Moulins. Nourished by dialogue, transmission and collaborative work, her work resonates with the history of the site, especially that of the women who were imprisoned there.
This exhibition proposes a reflection on the different forms of confinement, physical, social or intimate, whose echoes still cross our contemporary societies. Faced with these constraints, Sara Ouhaddou highlights the simple and repeated gestures of daily life, bearers of memory, care and transmission.
Rather than a frozen narrative, the artist composes a poetic and fragile experience around what is passed on from one generation to another. His work questions the way in which these knowledge, these gestures and these links persist over time, while remaining threatened with disappearance.
THE ARTIST, SARA OUHADDOU
French artist of Moroccan origin, Sara Ouhaddou develops a practice based on collaboration, dialogue and transmission.
At the crossroads of art and craft, his multidisciplinary work revisits traditional know-how, gestures, shapes, materials, colors, according to creative protocols focused on listening, exchange and reciprocity.
For more than ten years, she has collaborated with artisans in Morocco, France, Italy, Japan, the United States, Tunisia and, more recently, Uzbekistan. Each project is born from an encounter, territory, memory, object or story and develops in an evolutionary process that the artist conceives as a collective act.
THE EXHIBITION
Conceived as a poetic journey through the towers and ramparts of Aigues-Mortes, the itinerary imagined by Sara Ouhaddou explores the notions of transmission, memory, and disappearance. Through glass works, garlands, stained-glass windows and animal amulets, the artist uses the image of stars as a metaphor for the gestures passed down from generation to generation: their birth, their brilliance, their erasure and the traces they leave behind.
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