ROCAMBOLE brings together, in an evocative telescoping, the practices of six artists selected according to a principle of elective affinities. The works of Beatrice CELLI, Camille CHASTANG, Delphine DÉNÉRÉAZ, Daniele GENADRY, Basile GHOSN and Tatiana WOLSKA mix to form new combinations within the Hotel La Vague, responsible for the hospitality of a shared space and time.

While silhouettes inhabit the establishment, coming and going between its walls and gardens, going about their leisurely business or ensuring its feasibility through their services, paintings, assemblages, wall drawings, sculptures and collages witness this ballet of figures from their privileged observation posts.

Opening up new perspectives, escapes, architectures, landscapes, viewpoints and horizons, in a “journey around the hotel” where plant motifs and wildlife presences respond to each other, the ROCAMBOLE exhibition transfigures the experience of a site and encourages us to take a special time: that of looking.

On a proposal by Claire Migraine, with the collaboration of Pavlos Ioannides.
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Resonating with the masculine artistic history of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, the summer exhibition at the Hôtel La Vague chooses to convey the alterity through the feminine, with a particular emphasis given to the space and environnement. A specificity which echoes strongly within the artistic heritage of the territory (Villa Santo Sospir, Villa E1027, Fondation Maeght, the numerous chapels, more recently Hôtel Windsor, to name a few). These artistic remains, ruins of the modern times, recount moments of friendship, a certain rhythm, inspired travels.

The purpose and vision of the Hôtel La Vague follow these narratives; the strongly connoted architecture, surrounded by an ethereal nature is an invitation to wander, meander and share.

The group exhibition ‘Courber la ligne du temps’ refers to the choreography of the bodies in the transiting space of the Hotel, breaking with the linearity of its time, where past, future and present shape every single instant.

In the summer of 2020, La Vague de Saint-Paul was  showcasing the exhibition Welcome to a Land of Needs and Desires, which brought together artists Romain Gandolphe (1989, France), Karim Ghelloussi (1977, France) and Hazel Ann Watling (1984, Great Britain).

Sharing a pronounced fondness for the ironic, the outrageous and the undermining of hierarchies, these artistes are engaged in pondering their personal relationship to the history of art and the context of dissemination and perception of images and works. They invest a broad range of media and disciplines (sculpture, painting, collage, installation, performance), producing an unprecedented ensemble of artistic proposals.