EUROPEAN HERITAGE DAYS 2023

Presented in Bordeaux this summer (Ville de bordeaux/Zébra 3), Epic by Chloé Quenum comes to Piacé!
Installation of several boats from different regions, eras and, consequently, cultures.

Epic", without an article and in the singular, carries with it a bundle of ambitions in terms of form, both poetic and political. First and foremost, these ambitions for form echo the vocal roots of the epic genre: we will hear voices echoing within the walls of the former municipal archives of the city of Bordeaux. Voices that bear witness to tales of waters, navigations, fishing and passages. So many languages evoking memories of their relationship with movement on the seas, rivers and oceans, with the common denominator being the boats they used. Chloé Quenum, who often works like an anthropologist-alchemist to break down clear-cut categorisations, began by looking at the differences and similarities between different forms of boat, in different parts of the world. For Épopée, she has assembled a collection of ghost ships that act both as ephemeral receptacles for the stories they tell and as temporary hosts for their listeners. Cédric Fauq