Exposition: Ni tout à fait la même, ni tout à fait un autre

Édith Laplane and Michaël Serfaty each have their own artistic practice.
Édith is a visual artist; she creates, shapes and arranges works from recycled materials (fabrics, lace, paper…) around one main theme: femininity and in particular the female sex,
around one main theme: femininity, and in particular the female sex.
Using traditionally feminine techniques such as sewing and embroidery, her delicate works evoke
the fragile relics of curiosity cabinets.
Michaël is a photographer, and the images he captures confront us with the senses and the traces inscribed in women’s bodies.
women’s bodies. « Matter, roughness and accidents leave their mark on his photographs […] like a patient archaeologist of the human being ».
Olivier Bourgoin – agence révélateur.
This pair of artists share the same studio, but each works separately. The exhibition at the Musée du Pavillon de
The exhibition at the Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme brings them together for the first time to work together in resonance, dialogue and complementarity.
on their life’s theme, Woman.

Christel Pélissier – Roy
Director of the art and history museums of the city of Aix and head of the Pavillon de Vendôme museum.

Being invited to the Pavillon de Vendôme in Aix-en-Provence is anything but trivial.
intimacy, refinement, architectural reverie and gallant encounters. The question of the residence, the flat
The question of the residence, the apartment, is seen as a question of ‘belonging’, and this is what a tandem of designers, Édith
Laplane and Michaël Serfaty.
Keen to remain singular, they fiercely assert and assert total creative freedom, never denying themselves
anything. They are fertile zones of exchange, confrontation and influence, where their work flourishes.
avoiding all the pitfalls of rivalry.
The exhibition explores the artistic trajectory of this intimate pair, offering a cross-disciplinary rereading of the feminine, the body and the sacred, of words and images.
The exhibition explores the artistic trajectory of this intimate duo, offering a cross-disciplinary re-reading of the feminine, the body and the sacred, and of words, the source of their work, through a jubilant diversity of media. Never separated from life,
through the prism of the organic and creative cell that is the couple, these two artists are likely to surprise us by revealing new collaborations that are never far away.
This is a place that is also dedicated to contemporary art.

Élisabeth Chambon
Honorary Chief Curator.
Member of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Association of Museum Curators and Professionals.