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Mohamed El Khatib et Valérie Mréjen

Name: Mohamed El Khatib et Valérie Mréjen - Gardien Party
Start: 2021-09-15
End: 2021-09-26

Gardien Party

15 - 26 Sep 2021

Related to Les Mondes de Mohamed El Khatib

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They're not far away, vigilant while we look on. The works are always fragile, exposed to the irrepressible desire of many visitors to touch them, to comments, to interpretations, to possible damage or theft. The mission of the attendants and supervisors is to protect the works from these dangers. They see and hear everything, are sometimes taken to task, associated with presentation choices as if they were responsible for them. They have to be at once present but discreet, alert and attentive.

For this theatrical creation in which the public is received in the heart of the National Museum of Modern Art, Mohamed El Khatib and Valérie Mréjen reached out to supervisors and attendants in museums all over the whole world in order to have their opinions. In the course of fourteen representations in the Centre Pompidou, eight museum attendants from different places share their stories with the public, their opinions, their anecdotes, their personal feelings about the works, about visitors and about time. An invitation to discover an intimate and little-known dimension of what makes up a museum today.

With the Paris Autumn Festival and the Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, with the support of the Hermès Foundation in the context of its New Settings programme.

Concept and directing: Mohamed El Khatib, Valérie Mréjen

With:

David Hibernie, Louvre Museum, Paris

Carolina Hindsjö, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Marguerite Karcz-Virgili, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Seung-Hee Kim, Noguchi Museum, New York

Jean-Paul Sidolle, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes

Robert Smith, MoMA, New York

Image: Yohanne Lamoulère

Editing: Emmanuel Manzano

Stage design: Louise Sari

Technical coordination: Jonathan Douchet