With “La mémoire des routes,” the Hermès Corporate Foundation continues its support for contemporary art. This exhibition concludes the series of
events developed in collaboration with the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCS) at La Grande Place, Musée Saint-Louis. It brings together the artists
Dominique Kippelen and Jamila Wallentin in a unique dialogue between two artistic approaches shaped by travel.
Conceived by curator Estelle Pietrzyk, chief curator of heritage at the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, “La mémoire des routes” explores, in four sections, how travel shapes the perspective and artistic practice of Dominique Kippelen and Jamila Wallentin, from the earliest impulses of nomadism to the intertwining of landscapes, materials, and narratives. Throughout the exhibition, the works reveal “the interior of things”: a memory of places that is constructed as much through the materials collected as through the gestures and skills that shape them. While Domin
events developed in collaboration with the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCS) at La Grande Place, Musée Saint-Louis. It brings together the artists
Dominique Kippelen and Jamila Wallentin in a unique dialogue between two artistic approaches shaped by travel.
Conceived by curator Estelle Pietrzyk, chief curator of heritage at the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, “La mémoire des routes” explores, in four sections, how travel shapes the perspective and artistic practice of Dominique Kippelen and Jamila Wallentin, from the earliest impulses of nomadism to the intertwining of landscapes, materials, and narratives. Throughout the exhibition, the works reveal “the interior of things”: a memory of places that is constructed as much through the materials collected as through the gestures and skills that shape them. While Domin
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