Thematic routes

Users of the documentary collection are invited to propose a path in the files, from a selection of works chosen according to a common theme.

— May 2026

Post-Renaissance

Proposition of Pascal Bernard
Former documentation officer for Documents d'artistes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Pascal Bernard readily describes himself as a "collector of exhibitions." He has a particular interest in the practices of citing art history within contemporary creation.

This itinerary highlights contemporary works that bear witness to the persistence of references to the Renaissance — whether Italian, French, or Flemish — and …This itinerary highlights contemporary works that bear witness to the persistence of references to the Renaissance — whether Italian, French, or Flemish — and to their capacity to endure through time. Far from being limited to mere illustrative citations, they are part of a process of reactivation that turns images from the past into the material for new visual narratives.

— List of the mentioned artists :

  • Marie-Claire Mitout
  • Le Gentil Garçon
  • Sylvie Sauvageon
  • Yveline Loiseur
  • Jean-Xavier Renaud
  • Didier Tallagrand
  • Marc Desgrandchamps
  • Christine Crozat
  • Christelle Franc
  • Maïté Marra
  • Jean-Claude Guillaumon
  • Marion Robin

— November 2024

On ne change pas... On met juste les costumes d'autres sur soi…

Proposition de Leïla Couradin
Commissaire d’exposition et critique d'art indépendante (membre de c-e-a et de l’AICA), Leïla Couradin s’intéresse aux liens qu’entretiennent les arts visuels et la littérature, ainsi qu’aux pratiques collectives du champ de l’art, pensées comme vectrices de convivialité.

« À l’heure des selfies et de la mise en scène perpétuelle de nous-mêmes, ce parcours thématique vous invite à rencontrer des personnages qui avancent masqués. » […]

— List of the mentioned artists :

  • Gaëlle Foray
  • Delphine Balley
  • Baptiste Croze
  • Marie-Claire Mitout
  • Ludovic Boulard Le Fur
  • Jean-Claude Guillaumon
  • Émilien Adage
  • Bruno Silva
  • Lisa Duroux
  • Françoise Vergier

— September 2024

Crossing the water

On the occasion of the 17th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, this thematic tours proposed by Jade Ronat-Mallié presents a selection of works echoing the title of this new edition: “Les voix des fleuves, Crossing the water”.

Salmon are anadromous fish: they are born in fresh water, then migrate to salt water to return to finish their days and lay their eggs at the place of their birth, thus crossing thousands of kilometers.
I imagined them going back up the watercolors of the course of La Vilaine painted by Sylvie Sauvageon, according to the original surveys of 1543. I saw them following the Rhône and crossing the same landscape as the one taken by Bertrand Stofleth, from the glacier of the Swiss Alps to the Mediterranean Sea.

— List of the mentioned artists :

  • Sylvie Sauvageon
  • Bertrand Stofleth
  • Rajak Ohanian
  • Linda Sanchez
  • Gaëlle Foray
  • Camille Llobet
  • Delphine Gigoux-Martin
  • Guillaume Robert
  • Maxime Lamarche

— July 2024

Occupy the vacancies

In this period of absence from office messages, we propose a journey through the steps of artists who invest vacant areas, move the cadres, the time and place usually devoted to artistic work. Acting more or less officially, these artists temporarily occupy empty spaces, borrow functions, infiltrate the interstices, reveal unknowns and fill gaps. Whether they are playful, formal, experimental, theoretical or physical, their interventions - which are not necessarily destined to be public, nor even to be an artwork - explore possibilities, challenge usages and push the limits of their investigative environments.

— List of the mentioned artists :

  • Émilien Adage
  • Simon Feydieu
  • Maïté Marra
  • Karim Kal
  • Camille Llobet
  • Emmanuel Louisgrand
  • Antoine Palmier-Reynaud
  • Niek van de Steeg
  • Fabienne Ballandras
  • Max Bondu
  • Anne Le Troter
  • Lucie Chaumont

— September 2023

Outstanding

Proposal by Lélia Martin-Lirot

This journey brings together ephemeral works, with precarious conditions of existence, sometimes even doomed to disappearance. Whether they are in situ or performative interventions, tangible objects, tenuous or more monumental gestures, these evolutionary works provide, in their production processes or materials, both their own conditions of appearance and erasure, exhaustion, or even their potential destruction. Using recycling procedures and savings of means, the artists here cause transitory situations and produce unstable forms, in equilibrium suspended in the environment that receives them. By challenging the notions of collection and conservation, they assume a form of impermanence of the work, even if they risk its invisibility.

— List of the mentioned artists :

  • Linda Sanchez
  • Bruno Yvonnet
  • Marion Robin
  • Mathias Tujague
  • Antoine Palmier-Reynaud
  • Guillaume Perez
  • Émilie Perotto
  • Bruno Silva
  • Olivier Nottellet
  • Bertrand Grosol
  • Gaëlle Foray
  • Benedetto Bufalino
  • Perrine Lacroix

— September 2023

Let’s go!

Proposal by Jade Ronat-Mallié

The summer holidays are over and smart bison can no longer see red. For DDA-AuRA, the journey continues, at the mouth of a new site. In the light of this new beginning and to inaugurate the section of thematic courses, I propose a stroll «at the foot of the letter» among works that appear, transform or invent various means of transport.

Thought as a roaming, this selection navigates between objects really or metaphorically mobile, functional machines or diverted from their uses. Much more than steel carcasses and floating structures, these vehicles refer us to our lifestyles and the fantasy of travel that we will probably never do.

Reinterpreting the notions of time and movement, the artists lead us to unexpected horizons and unexplored lands. Let’s go!

— List of the mentioned artists :

  • Maxime Lamarche
  • Laurent Pernel
  • Anne Marie Rognon
  • Benedetto Bufalino
  • Slimane Raïs
  • Marion Robin
  • Bertrand Grosol
  • Dejode & Lacombe
  • Delphine Gigoux-Martin
  • Jan Kopp

— September 2023

1, 2, 3, trois petits chats

Proposal by Pascal Bernard

Who has never sung as a french child “un, deux, trois… Trois petits chats… Chapeau d’paille… Paillasson… Somnambule… Bulletin… Tintamarre… Marabout… Bout d’ficelle… Selle de cheval… Cheval de course… Course à pied… Pied à terre… Terre de Feu… Feu follet… Lait de vache… Vache de ferme… Ferme ta gueule… Gueule de loup… Loup des bois… Boîte aux lettres… Lettre d’amour… Mourre à trois… Trois p’tits chats…”? This rhyme serves as a common thread to subjectively associate the words and works of fourteen artists.

— List of the mentioned artists :

  • Rajak Ohanian
  • Jean-Claude Guillaumon
  • Johann Rivat
  • Lucy Watts
  • Jan Kopp
  • Marine Lanier
  • Christine Crozat
  • Georges Rey
  • Lisa Duroux
  • Karim Kal
  • Slimane Raïs