From October 14, 2025 to March 25, 2026, the Musée Regards de Provence presents the exhibition Of Gall, Honey and Salt – Katia Bourdarel, bringing together around one hundred works spanning more than a decade of creation.
The exhibition reveals the richness of a hybrid practice oriented toward painting and drawing, but also encompassing installation, sculpture, and video. Of Gall, Honey and Salt highlights the ambivalence that runs through the work of the Marseille-based artist, poised between reality and dream, shadow and light.
Non-chronological in form, the exhibition unfolds across two spaces like an initiatory journey, evoking the flavor of life itself, its bittersweet taste, as fragile as it is immortal.
The first part of the exhibition lifts the veil on the themes of light and the body, in connection with the garden and an Edenic nature reminiscent of a lost paradise. Disguised children or beautiful odalisques adorned with shimmering fabrics and jewels, statues of Venus or nymphs hidden among moss and foliage: the brilliance of beauty in Katia Bourdarel’s work reveals itself only through its ambiguities, at the threshold of shadow. It offers itself, even as it slips away. Harmonious, preserved, powerful, yet also petrified, constrained, mutilated, monstrous.
The second space is devoted to darkness and metamorphosis. Night becomes a room of one’s own, a refuge of interiority that echoes collective narratives and the depths of an original matrix. Forests, huts, castles, still waters, nymphs and birds whisper the mysteries of myths and of an ancestral nature where earth and sky, life and chaos intertwine in an endless dance.
Together, the works reveal the many facets of Katia Bourdarel’s universe, one that opens onto a dreamlike and timeless reality, while remaining deeply attuned to the upheavals of the contemporary world.
The themes of nature and the female body, between exaltation and vulnerability, awaken an instinctive and untamed force, one attentive to feminist and environmental concerns.
Practical Information and Visits to the Musée Regards de Provence
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Exhibition Admission: Full price: €8.50. Reduced rates: €8.00 – €7.00 – €6.00 – €4.50 – €3.50.
Guided tours (individuals): Entrance fee + €7 per person (outside of groups), Tuesday and Saturday at 3:00 PM by reservation.
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Free guided tour for individuals (first Saturday of each month at 10:30 AM), excluding entrance fee (full price), by reservation (6 to 25 people).