COLLECT|MC IS AN ART INITIATIVE
SHOWCASING THE WORK OF EMERGING ARTISTS
ENHANCED BY DIVERGING RESEARCH AND MULTIPLES NARRATIVES
WE AIM TO PRESENT ARTWORKS THAT ARE MEANINGFUL AND ANTICIPATIVE
RESPONSIVE TO THE QUESTIONS OF OUR COMMON FUTURE
CONCERNED BY THE AMBIGUITY OF OUR PRESENT TIME
COLLECT|MC reopens in September
by appointment only
UPCOMING : Saturday 3rd october, 12:30
Festival Les Visiteurs du Soir, Réseau Botox(s)
Echauffement à la poésie contemporaine.
Fragments written and performed.
In collaboration with the FANB - Laurent Papillon
and artist Tristan Blimel.
Guided visit of the exhibition.
LES PRATICIENS DE L'INFERNAL
du 27 avril au 13 juin 2026
For its 4th edition, collect|mc presents a group exhibition.
The Practitioners of the Infernal’ - a title borrowed from Pierre La Police’s highly acerbic comic strip series, centered on the singular notion of idiocy, described by art critic and writer Jean-Yves Jouannais.
This somewhat disconcerting and rather mischievous stance grants the artwork a fundamental freedom: to play with codes and crack the seriousness that is often too rigid to move forward. The absurd surprises, parodies, denounces the norm, and allows for risky narratives that appear sometimes extravagant or, conversely, absolutely mute.
This proposition constitutes a space of resistance to the dominant logic,
to overly confident discourses, to enclosed systems.
The idiot, in the Jouannaisian sense, is not the one who is ignorant,
but the one who persists in looking askance, in slowing down meaning, in suspending the obvious
