As an outlet for two years of pandemic, Aix-en-Provence will kick off, on March 26, its first biennial of art and culture which will host nearly a hundred multidisciplinary projects in 2022.
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This biennial, called
A fifth season
,
“was first born of a suffering which was that of the pandemic where cultural actors no longer had an audience, obviously had difficulty creating”
, detailed Sophie Joissains, mayor UDI of Aix-en-Provence, during a press conference on Wednesday.
"I really felt this need to create, to bring out something that was on the order of a cry of life"
, she added.
Each time of the biennial, which will be divided into four three-week periods following the rhythm of the seasons (spring, summer, autumn and winter), will be the subject of a launch weekend with free access.
For the one on March 26 and 27, which opens the "
Spring Season
" until April 17, the public will be able to stroll through the different districts of the city along five artistic routes that will take them from the heights of Aix-en- Provence to Jas-de-Bouffan via the historic center and the cultural forum, without forgetting the Sainte-Victoire mountain.
A “weaving of very different cultural themes
”
On the program in particular: suspended circus with
Bleu Tenace
from the Rhizome company, comic strip exhibitions, for example by the author-illustrator for young people Christophe Bataillon, contemporary art installations, a treasure hunt to discover your totem animal or even a choreography by Angelin Preljocaj around the philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
"The idea and the need were to link the themes, to link the cultural actors, sometimes very powerful in the city, sometimes a little less"
, detailed Sophie Joissains, specifying that more than 70 cultural partners had been associated in this project
“totally co-constructed”
and without an artistic director.
There is also
"something special, unusual in this weaving of very different cultural themes, but also artistic, socio-cultural themes"
and in the
"unpublished places which will be inhabited by culture"
, added the mayor of 'Aix en Provence.
"It is the artists who are placed back at the heart of collective life"
with this project which is not there
"only to re-enchant the world but also to rebuild social ties, irrigate the territory, to stimulate the economic life that has gone through a period of misery”
, explained for his part Philippe Pintore, deputy director general of the cultural services of the city.
