The exhibition La vie est une plaie dont je ne me défais pas, featuring works from the Francès collection, explores the raw energy that emerges from the flawed, the unfulfilled and the tormented.

Between figuration and suggestion, the works cultivate a dramatic tension where the eye oscillates between familiarity and strangeness. They conjure up a precariously balanced imagination, oscillating between tradition and the avant-garde, where innovation constantly pushes back the frontiers of the mind.

A journey to the edge of reality: drawing on the expression of the troubled and the fragmentary, this immersion questions everyone about the porosities between the visible and the invisible, the conscious and the unconscious, history and myth.

The urgency to create: if the wound never closes, that's because it's also an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

This exhibition showcases both established and emerging international artists, who use a variety of practices to transform the unspeakable into form, to make the untameable visible. Here, figurative painting, photography and sculpture don't just tell a story, they cross it, they incarnate it, they challenge it.

A reflection on our times: through these works, we can see a reflection on the human condition, its doubts and tensions. From social upheavals to more intimate concerns, this exhibition captures the echo of a world in perpetual transformation.

Dive into an exploration where art becomes an outlet, a cry, a mirage, an anchor. An invitation to confront what troubles us, what haunts us, and what tirelessly drives us to create.

The artists presented: Farley Aguilar, Markus Åkesson, Gilles Barbier, Romain Bernini, Alin Bozbiciu, Guillaume Bresson, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Paul Chiappe, Jan de Maesschalck, Desiree Dolron, Pamela Earnshaw Kelly, Clément Fourment, Nina Mae Fowler, Simon Fujiwara, Marcel Gähler, Gérard Gasiorowski, Robert Gligorov, Guerra De La Paz, Philip Gurrey, Bilal Hamdad, Oda Jaune, Eva Jospin, Sergey Kononov, Nicolas Lebeau, Hans Op de Beeck, Stéphane Pencréac'h, Françoise Pétrovitch, Flavia Pitis, Nazanin Pouyandeh, Gideon Rubin, Nicola Samorì, Hamdan Saray, Wilhelm Sasnal, Andres Serrano, Jim Shaw, Florian Süssmayr, Aaron Young.