Lieux de mémoire

For the historian Pierre Nora, history and memory are not to be confused. History speaks to us of a past moment that no longer exists. Memory, for its part, is alive and anchored in the present. It changes continually, forgetting occasionally, and broadening over time. A place of memory exists in people’s will to remember.

The La Chevrotière mill is such a place of memory. A material vestige of a bygone era, it has been preserved on the banks of the river that gave it its name, and has seen a variety of uses over the decades. The exhibition presented in the mill brings together 12 works that are also places of memory, as when the use of a traditional technique ensures the transmission of know-how or when an age-old material—flax—evokes the fabric we still weave today and the intimate memories we each associate with it.


In these ways, each work in the exhibition carries within itself the memory of a place, an act, a person or an event. Places of memory to discover...

Curator : Denis Longchamps

june 24^th to september 27^th 2009