À votre service

To celebrate the opening of Gabriel Fontana’s exhibition, we invite you to share and take part in an edible action. 

For the occasion, tennis rackets will enter the museum, transformed into trays to be loaded. All you have to do is stroll through the space, serving a sporting snack to whoever wants one.

From vertical to horizontal, from racket to tray, from visit to service: a play of forms to shift tastes. The floor is yours. 

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Camille Bes is a visual artist, holding a CAP in aesthetics from 2011 and a DNSEP from 2017 from the Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse - beaux-arts. In 2019, she co-founded Le Parti, an artistic manufacturing workshop in Grenade, Occitanie, with artist and silkscreen printer Marine Semeria, with whom she manages administration and programming. Both a workshop, a living space, an artistic and political gesture, Le Parti is a place they imagined,renovated, and shaped collectively. Inhabiting such a space has gradually blurred the boundaries between private life,creation, care, and public action. Everything becomes raw material for questioning: how do we nourish ourselves? how do we arrange our daily lives? what materials do we use? what do we produce and to what end?

Initially trained in sculpture and installation, Camille Bes now re-examines her position regarding cumbersome, costly artistic production with its sometimes complex materials—returning to simpler, more mobile, more collective forms.Cooking, drawing, utilitarian ceramics, writing, and speech have become new mediums for her. Since 2020, she has also developed a practice in utilitarian ceramics and takes a close interest in cooking, both in domestic and collective spaces and in the field of contemporary art. She regularly leads artistic and cultural education workshops for various audiences.

“In these gestures, I found a new freedom: creating without the injunction to « make art », giving myself permission for amateurism, reconciling myself with poetic inefficiency.”

Through collective artistic experiences (workshops, meetings, banquets, etc.), Camille Bes explores the notions of care,femininity, and hetero-patriarchal injunctions. The influence of her singular educational background and her experience of living and working in a collective space allows her to bring a situated perspective to the human experiences generated by an artistic practice—both for the audience and for the artist herself, who experiences the support, creation, and dissemination of artistic forms on an almost daily basis.

Camille Bes’s research linked to the practice of cooking, as well as the culinary experiences she creates—individually or collectively—allow her to invoke notions of know-how (savoir-faire) and, by extension, interpersonal skills (savoir-être).