On the occasion of the Halle’s 40th anniversary, we are inaugurating a new cycle that explores celebration as a multifaceted space: at once a moment of shared joy, social release, and claimed freedom. While celebration is first and foremost a playful, jubilant interlude, it is also a territory of expression a place where bodies are liberated, norms begin to waver, and music and dance become languages of emancipation.

We enter the exhibition by passing through a cabaret curtain created for the occasion by the collective Les enfants de Diane. A symbolic and reversible threshold, it presents multiple figures, at times luminous, at times nocturnal. The exhibition then unfolds across “three rooms, three atmospheres.” The first plays with the codes of reception (M’Barka Amor) and celebration (Hugo Capron), as well as irreverent (Marie Losier) or melancholic (Christian Boltanski) birthday parties. Next, Romane Charlot’s glass sculptures immerse us in a fairground-like atmosphere that is both sensational and delicate. The final space is taken over by Tony Regazzoni, who transforms the art center into a temple of kitsch and disco through an immersive installation that, driven by deep bass, elevates places that are gradually disappearing: local nightclubs.

Festively Yours is an invitation to joy while also shedding light on the (seemingly) contradictory energies that make up celebration euphoria and tension, celebration and subversion, carefreeness and determination. The works brought together urge us to feel this shared rhythm, this pulse that connects us in a common momentum, questioning the boundaries between individual pleasure, sociability, and collective action.

Artists: M’Barka Amor, Christian Boltanski, Hugo Capron, Romane Charlot, Les enfants de Diane, Marie Losier, Tony Regazzoni