It's your choice! The children's exhibition
In 2022, Les Abattoirs already organised a "participatory exhibition", where everyone could vote for their favourite works. The works that received the most votes were then exhibited in the building's rooms.
The experiment is being repeated today, but especially for children!
It's up to you to choose your favourites from a shortlist of works from the Abattoirs collections.
How do you vote?
This project is open to all children aged 3 to 11 in France. There are two ways to vote:
- Online: you can use an online poll to choose your favourite works and explain why you like them (only in French): Participatory exhibition - Online voting
- On site, at Les Abattoirs: on the first floor, in the mediation area, you'll find a fresco showing all the works you can choose from. You'll also find ballot papers, which you can fill in on your own or with the help of an adult and slip into the ballot box.
Feel free to express your emotions by voting: which work touched you? moved you? made you laugh or cry? Which do you find beautiful or interesting? Last but not least, which works would you like to see exhibited at Les Abattoirs? We'll post the comment that touched, intrigued or surprised us most next to the work.
End of voting: 10 March at 11.59pm
Your exhibition will open at 6pm on 30 May.
Well done, you've voted!
How were the works chosen?
There are several reasons why we've chosen the works we've shown you:
- Availability of the work
A work can travel a lot, being loaned to other museums or art centres. Museums collaborate a great deal by lending each other works of art from their collections. Some works are not available for this vote. - The state of conservation of the work
Some works are very fragile because of the materials used by the artist or because they are old. They cannot therefore be exhibited too often. - Parity
You'll notice that historically, in many museums, there are very few works by women on display. For several years now, Les Abattoirs has been correcting this inequality by enriching its collections with works by women artists. The selection of works on offer today reflects our desire to have an equal number of works by men and women: that's parity.
Find out more about the collections at Les Abattoirs
Les Abattoirs is a museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art, which opened in Toulouse in 2000.
Les Abattoirs has two functions: it is first and foremost a museum, i.e. a place where works of art are conserved and exhibited, but it is also a regional contemporary art fund (Frac) whose mission is to disseminate the collections throughout the Occitanie region (art centres, secondary schools, hospitals, prisons, etc.).
The Abattoirs collections are made up of works that can be very different: paintings, sculptures, photographs or drawings, but also videos, soundtracks, neon writings, and even a bed or a caravan! Modern and contemporary art can take many different forms, and artists give free rein to their imagination.