Visages/frontières | Trinkhall museum

The first season of the Trinkhall is devoted to the theme of the face. The collection offers an extraordinarily diverse and deeply moving illustration of this - as if , for forty years now, the very question of identity could freely be unfolded in the refuge of workshops. The images and sculptures in the collection seem to move across the entire history of art, haunted, from the origins to the present day, by the figuration of faces. Yet it is not the affirmative or most commonly celebratory forms of faces that are shown, but rather all their interrogative declinations. The faces of the collection cross the boundaries of identity, they fade, split, tear, interlock or multiply, things among things, witnesses of fragile and fragmented, anxious or jubilant existences, carried away in the perpetual movement of the environments in which they stand. What is a face? What is being yourself? At the heart of the museum, the faces of the collection - those of Inès Andouche, Antonio Brizzolari, Mawuena Kattah, Pascale Vincke and many others - interact with an overmodelled skull from New Guinea - Papua New Guinea, a self-portrait of Rembrandt, a DIY figure of Louis Pons, a lithograph by Bengt Lindström or James Ensor,.. We have also invited contemporary artists who take up questions raised by faces of the collection. Thomas Chable, Hélène Tilman, Anne de Gelas, Dany Danino and Yvon Vandycke all take part in the museum's work, each proposing a work that relays the theme of the face. Finally, Créahm productions, designed and produced especially for the opening of the museum, highlight the art developed in workshops in its constant fluctuation. The exhibition "faces/borders" is something of a device to experiment, experience and think about the vertigo of identity.