BOUTS DU MONDE
Figures de L'Île

Morgane Fourey, Agnès Frété, Garry Loughlin, Richard Pak, Josephina van de Water, Elliott Verdier

FROM JULY 5 TO OCTOBER 5, 2025
CHÂTEAU DE FLAMANVILLE, COTENTIN, NORMANDY

After flowers, birds and trees, the summer exhibition at the Château de Flamanville is dedicated to the island. Inspired by the proximity of the Channel Islands on the horizon, the exhibition Bouts du monde brings together six artists whose works – photographs, animated films, paper sculptures and paintings – explore the vast territory of projection that is the island.

The island of our childhood is often deserted, unspoilt, inhabited by fascinating and sometimes slightly frightening animal species. As adults, we discover it as a coveted territory, steeped in human history of domination and exploitation. It is this duality that the exhibition Bouts du monde seeks to recreate, in a journey linking imaginary lands and geographical realities.

Start by landing on the refuge islands of painter Morgane Fourey, populated by surrealist figures. Moving on, discover the paper sculptures of Agnès Frégé, whose fragmented contours and bluish landscapes recall the Channel Islands she sailed around as a child. It is this distant island, a subject of projection and fantasy, that photographer Richard Pakcollects, transforming himself into an ‘island thief’. It is to the island, a land of tales and fables, that Dutch artist Josephina van de Water sets sail in an animated film featuring a few animals, pioneer inhabitants of a paper island, who quickly find themselves caught up in conflicts over territory and power. These same challenges are at the heart of Rockall, a small piece of rock in the North Atlantic that Irish artist Garry Loughlin has reinvented. The journey continues with Richard Pak’s trip to Tristan da Cunha, his original utopia and its contemporary realities, ending with a trip to the end of the world, taken by Elliott Verdier, to the far reaches of the Bering Strait.