Pierre et mer mêlées – Un archipel imaginaire des présences en mouvement

To mark the 2025 Season of France in Brazil, Frac Bretagne and Frac Corsica are organizing the distribution of video works from the Frac collections for Platform, the network of regional contemporary art funds.

Curators: Etienne Bernard, director of Frac Bretagne, Fabien Danesi, director of Frac Corsica, and Daniel Rangel, director of MAC Bahia.

The exhibition at MAC Bahia approaches migration through its sensitive resonances rather than head-on. The images evoke territories crossed, memories in motion, fleeting forms of appearance.
Between sea and desert, fluidity and aridity, a fragmentary cartography emerges, an archipelago of disjointed signs. It is the materials, gestures, and silences that carry the narratives—of crossings, expectations, and ways of living differently.

200 years of diplomatic relations

During their meeting in Paris in June 2023, Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva decided to organize a France-Brazil Season in 2025 to give new impetus to bilateral relations, which will celebrate their 200th anniversary this year. The Season also aims to contribute to joint responses to contemporary political, social, and ecological challenges, and to showcase the richness and diversity of creativity in both countries.
This new Season is built around three themes:
– Climate and ecological transition, echoing the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice (June 2025) and COP30 in Belém (November 2025)
– Diversity of societies and dialogue with Africa: France and Brazil share strong ties with Africa and a desire to promote the diversity of their cultures, particularly those of African descent and indigenous peoples.
– Democracy and the rule of law: the presidents have expressed their desire to work together to defend democratic values and human rights, in particular by combating disinformation and discrimination.

Beyond these major themes, the Season’s overall ambition is to deepen and invigorate bilateral partnerships and cooperation in all areas, including culture, the economy and social entrepreneurship, research and higher education, education, and sport, in order to strengthen ties beyond the Season.
With a focus on projects aimed at young people and professionals, the Season’s program has been developed in collaboration with civil society, local authorities, and cultural actors from both countries, paying particular attention to issues of diversity, equality, and sustainability.

The Season, which will take place in France from April to September 2025, then in Brazil from August to December 2025, is organized and implemented:
– for Brazil: by the Guimarães Rosa Institute, under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, the Brazilian Embassy in France, and the Brazilian Commissariat headed by Mr. Emilio Kalil;
– for France: by the Institut français with the support of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, the French Embassy in Brazil and the French Commissariat headed by Ms. Anne Louyot.

Photo : Marcel Dinahet, Sur la mer (08.10.14 La Fresnaie), de l’ensemble Brûler ses vaisseaux, 2014. Collection Frac Bretagne © Adagp, Paris 2025. Courtesy de l’artiste (capture vidéo)