After flowers, birds and trees, the summer exhibition at the Château de Flamanville is dedicated to the island. Inspired by the proximity of the Channel Islands on the horizon, the exhibition Bouts du monde brings together six artists whose works – photographs, animated films, paper sculptures and paintings – explore the vast territory of projection that is the island.

The island of our childhood is often deserted, unspoilt, inhabited by fascinating and sometimes slightly frightening animal species. As adults, we discover it as a coveted territory, steeped in human history of domination and exploitation. It is this duality that the exhibition Bouts du monde seeks to recreate, in a journey linking imaginary lands and geographical realities.

Start by landing on the refuge islands of painter Morgane Fourey, populated by surrealist figures. Moving on, discover the paper sculptures of Agnès Frégé, whose fragmented contours and bluish landscapes recall the Channel Islands she sailed around as a child. It is this distant island, a subject of projection and fantasy, that photographer Richard Pak collects, transforming himself into an ‘island thief’. It is to the island, a land of tales and fables, that Dutch artist Josephina van de Water sets sail in an animated film featuring a few animals, pioneer inhabitants of a paper island, who quickly find themselves caught up in conflicts over territory and power. These same challenges are at the heart of Rockall, a small piece of rock in the North Atlantic that Irish artist Garry Loughlin has reinvented. The journey continues with Richard Pak’s trip to Tristan da Cunha, his original utopia and its contemporary realities, ending with a trip to the end of the world, taken by Elliott Verdier, to the far reaches of the Bering Strait.

Echoing the exhibition, a subjective cartographic journey through the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Internet Archive is offered in the castle grounds.

An exhibition curated by the Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie.

As a member of the European photography platform FUTURES (co-funded by Creative Europe), the Centre photographique is including 3 artists from the network in this exhibition: Garry Loughlin (Ireland), Josephina van de Water (Netherlands/Belgium) and Elliott Verdier (France).

Château de Flamanville
Free admission
Every day from 11am to 1pm and from 2pm to 6pm
1, rue du Château – 50340 Flamanville
Contact: Flamanville Town Hall
T. +33 (0)2 33 87 66 66 / communication@flamanville.fr