Nouvelles saisons

What would the portrait of the urban and suburban area inhabited by the 1,700,000 people who live in the Bordeaux metropolitan area and the Gironde region look like? How can the representations produced by institutional players, professionals and amateurs be put together? How can we make this contemporary landscape and its transformations legible, in an area subject to intense demographic growth?

The result of a call for contributions launched by arc en rêve in 2023, the Nouvelles saisons exhibition is an open platform designed to answer these questions and paint a portrait of the Gironde region through the practices that shape it on a daily basis. At once an atlas, a map and a primer, it is made up of stories, explorations and documents that provide an overview of this region, which is undergoing profound changes in both society and the environment. Bringing together over 50 contributions, the exhibition brings together photography, visual arts, architecture, installations, publishing, multimedia research, literature, family memories, videos and films. All of these elements are on display in the arc en rêve galleries, creating a participatory narrative and a forum for debate on the future of the area.