20 November 2026 -
13 March 2027
Among the most remarkable in the world, Chilkat weavings are born from what the land offers to the Alaskan people who create them: the wool of a mountain goat, cedar bark, fibers and pigments from endemic plants. The year long process follows the rhythm of the seasons and the harvest, as well as that of the artisan’s hand. Animal meets plant matter, material comes into contact with the hand, human time is enjoined to the natural time of the land. The artwork bears witness to the world from which it stems.
It is in this spirit that we present 'Reliance', the fifth chapter in a series of exhibitions celebrating craft which began at Gallifet in 2022. The word carries two meanings: dependence and trust. The artisan depends on what the natural world has to offer and learns to trust the material, its properties, its resistance and its rhythm.
Open from Tuesday to Saturday from noon to 6pm
Entry 10 €
Free entry for students and under 25s
Guided tours take place from 4 to 5 pm on Wednesday afternoons
- Wilfried Becret explores residual materials, bringing ancestral craft techniques into dialogue with industrial innovation.
- Mathilde Caylou uses glass to investigate landscapes and soils, revealing the earth’s fragile translucency.
- Morgane Baroghel-Crucq creates monumental weavings, works of patience and silence that counter the turmoil of the world with the slow passage of time reclaimed.
- Gérard Desquand perpetuates the age-old art of heraldic engraving, inscribing human memory into metal and porcelain.
- Atelier George is both a glassblowing workshop and a design studio. Eve George and Laurent Fichot shape objects conceived to resist identical reproduction, ensuring the singularity of each piece.
- Loumi Le Floc’h transforms aubergine peel into precious, luminous surfaces, turning each discarded fragment into a form of organic painting.
- Marie Levoyet uses the technique of heliogravure to create a sensitive dialogue between light, copper and ink.
- Xavier Montoy elevates the living world through goldsmithing and electroforming, preserving biodiversity through delicate metallic adornment.
- Muriel Nisse creates masks at the intersection of textile and sculpture, transforming the face into an intimate, theatrical landscape.
- Morgane Pasqualini combines wheel-throwing with ‘colombin’, the ancestral coiling technique, creating unique ceramic forms characterised by fluid, free lines.
- Laurentine Périlhou elevates macramé to the realm of sculptural art, intertwining precious threads to reveal the resilience of the living world.
- Simone Pheulpin sculpts raw cotton through meticulous pleating, creating strata that speak of infinite patience.
- Lisa Rousseau gives form to the almost imperceptible through mineral-based plasters and frescoes imbued with profound restraint.
- Harumi Sugiura combines origami-inspired folds with botanical dyes, breathing soul and movement into silk.
- Yiqing Yin sculpts silk into organic folds and fluid drapes, bringing to life poetic, armour-like garments.
