«Parvine Curie, a sculpted world» Until 15 January 2024 His work is closely linked to Troyes and its museum of modern art. The daughter of a pharmacist on Emile Zola Street, she spent her childhood in this «city of towers, vaults, columns and arrows». She walks the streets, already sensitive to the beauty of the buildings that surround her. This link so alive to architecture that it then opens to many other influences, from Spanish Romanesque art to temples in Asia or pyramids in Egypt, remains one of the guidelines of his entire work. In 1984, Parvine Curie was chosen by the State to create the door of the Museum of Modern Art in Troyes, which has just opened. A retrospective is then dedicated to him and the artist makes a first donation of works to the city. Almost forty years later, she once again showed her attachment to the Troy museum: on the occasion of its renovation, she donated seven works, two of which were added to the new sculpture garden. It is therefore quite natural that the first major exhibition of the renovated museum is dedicated to him, marking the return of Parvine Curie to Troyes. The museum door is a work of strong symbolism. In addition to its functional role as a link between the outside world and the museum, it is a true allegory of the passage. The artist chose to work on the theme of the banyan tree, big fig tree present in India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka. This giant tree is characterized by its multiple aerial roots that become new stems when they touch the ground. Like a tree of life, it unfolds in relief on the two wooden panels of Iroko’s door, drawing by its roots a kind of M that seems to recall the destination of the place on which it opens: a museum.