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like Orlan's video installation "Repères(s) mutant(s)",
based on the idea of the cultural mix, and Annette
Messager's "La Mer échevelée" with boats caught up in
waves of hair hiding "a world engulfed by our
subconscious fears", to quote the exhibition's curator,
Juliette Laffon. Also worth noting: the bronze sculpture
"Shelter" by Israeli artist Sigalit Landau at the Belvédère,
and at the Tour Panorama, a monumental iron chastity
belt entitled "La liberté viendra" by the Lebanese/Egyptian
artist Lara Baladi, evoking censure towards women
and the Arab Spring. Marseille, the port with a thousand
memories, explores its heritage through four exhibitions
and three venues. "Méditerranéens" at J1, on the
Boulevard du Littoral, takes a subtle look at great cities of
the past and present. In "César et les secrets du Rhône"
at the city's departmental archives, digs from the Rhône
to Arles are revealed through a staging that alludes to
the river. At La Vieille-Charité, Czech photographer
Joseph Koudelka presents photos taken in nineteen
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countries around the Mediterranean in "Vestiges, 1991-
1992": photographs like paintings of ruins, with a pure,
simple beauty that speaks for itself. Lastly, not far from
the chapel, "Le trésor des Marseillais” (The treasure of
Marseille)" from Delphi will appear in a sophisticated,
cutting-edge staging. While for the moment we regret
the absence of works in the streets and the lack of
connection between various sites, Pavillon M – a nerve
centre impossible to miss with its wooden architecture
in the heart of the Vieux-Port – provides information on
what to see in and around the city. It proposes
exhibitions and a striking video on the city's
development from its early beginnings to the present
day. Between January and May, two towns, Aubagne
and Aix-en-Provence, are also pulling out all the stops.
Marcel Pagnol's Aubagne is hosting Palestinian artist
Mona Hatoum in the renovated Chapelle des Pénitents
Noirs, whose light-filled nave houses thirteen politically
committed works expressing both force and refinement.