In the frame of the 5ème Biennale d’art contemporain d’Anglet
The artists of The Pavillon and the curator Cécile Bourne-Farrell
From May, 24th to September, 1st 2013.
Everyday except Monday morning, 10h-12h/14h-18h.
Free entrance
Villa Beatrix Enea
2, rue Albert-le-Barillier 64 600 Anglet
Children are under the responsibility of the adult who comes with them during their visit in the house and the garden. The 5th Contemporary Art Biennale of Anglet and its curator Didier Arnaudet has invited the 10 resident artists of the Pavillion to take over the Villa Beatrix Enea as well as its park and its architecture, in order to develop new projects within the specificities of these spaces. The resulting works were elaborated based on a reflection on the exhibition context and the many exchanges between the residents, a creative process led by exhibition curator Cécile Bourne-Farrell.
Paul Campagne (1870–1941) and his wife Julienne Moussempès (1879–1956), owners of the famous Hôtel d’Angleterre in Biarritz, built a secondary residence in 1900 and named it “Marnoger”. Stemming from real and fictive stories surrounding the property, the residents of the Pavillon came up with original artistic proposals. The artists turned away from the domestic dimension of the ground floor by projecting their visions of the location, and moreover the people from different cultures and histories that lived there. Emptied of its furniture, the villa’s upper floors are occupied by the city administration of Anglet. In the exhibition, a particular relation combines the uses of the house and its park in the day and night to the “past future”. The artists aim to outline the subjective traces in the heart of this house, which is also a setting of cultural reference for Anglet.