“Mediterranating” at the Friche la Belle de Mai

Marfret is sponsoring an exhibition entitled “Méditerraner” (“Mediterranate”) taking place at Marseille’s Friche la Belle de Mai from 27^th August to 3^rd November 2021.  The free exhibition, in the Friche’s Salle des Machines, invites visitors to reflect upon the subject of openness towards others, at a time when border controls are becoming increasingly strict. The video installations, objects, photographs and books brought together for the exhibition transform the name of the sea, our Mare Nostrum,  into a verb, providing the neologism with a sensory quality. Already, in 2019, Marfret had devoted a newsletter editorial to this new verb, which has been registered with the Académie Française by the art and aesthetics journal Tête-à-Tête.