FRAC Occitanie Montpellier
4 rue Rimbaud, 34000 Montpellier, France
Founded in 1982, the Frac Occitanie Montpellier is an open collection, all generations and mediums combined. It has more than 1,400 works representative of the plurality of issues in contemporary creation. Its diversity results from a desire to be in tune with artistic research and to promote singular approaches, notably by constituting groups of works, artists or movements. Many works in the collection have an indisputable relationship to images. Whether it is in the traditional fields of painting, sculpture, drawing, or whether it concerns modern recording devices (photography, cinema, video...), the issues of representation are very much explained in this collection. But we also notice, after more than 30 years of acquisitions, that other issues are raised in contemporary creation: artists do not only invent forms or languages, they also invent creative processes that "mix" the classical or technological means – they have at their disposal. It is in this that we notice a "hybridization" of techniques and that, given the often important mixes in the works, the challenges of hybrid images have been, since 2011, a privileged focus in the collection. Examples include works by Pierre Ardouvin, Conrad Bakker, Benoît Broisat, Thibault Brunet, Jean-Marc Cerino, Julien Crépieux, Nina Childress, Dejode and Lacombe, Bertrand Dezoteux, Joan Fontcuberta, Trevor Gould, Emily Mast, Mabel Palacin, Julien Tiberi, David Joaquin... Beyond its historical missions, the Frac Occitanie Montpellier manages the website [www.artcontemporainlanguedocroussillon](http://www.artcontemporainlanguedocroussillon). fr, offering everyone, amateur or professional, access to the broadest and most complete information on contemporary art in the region.
