The sun shines across Corsica all summer long

We enter the shadow of the disused barracks through a field of uncanny "suns": sunflowers in a fixed shot that the artist Rose Lowder has made vibrate, in a loop, through a capture where the focus is continuously made between the foreground and the background. This very pictorial video from 1982 opens the "Plein soleil" journey through the former Montlaur military barracks, in the citadel of Bonifacio, in South Corsica.

The exhibition is the counterpoint to the exhibition "La Notte" , a stroll through a Mediterranean night through a selection of works from the Centre Pompidou presented there two years ago by the De Renava team, the trio of thirty-somethings who launched the Bonifacio Biennale in 2022, and who, in the "off" years, offer a thematic exhibition based on a collection.

For this second collaboration with the museum, the proposal moves away from the Mediterranean tropism which is at the heart of their approach towards a proposal which is just as atmospheric, but more conceptual.

E-clip-se (1999), by Chris Marker , was filmed at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris during a total solar eclipse, "eclipsed" by the filmmaker, who had fun pulling reality towards science fiction through the spectacle of the observers of the phenomenon, their faces masked by protective glasses. Further on, an installation by Laurent Grasso , whose work is nourished by celestial phenomena, seems to echo it, based on archive images documenting the appearance of a "dance of the sun", which brought together some 70,000 people on October 13, 1917, near the town of Fatima, Portugal. Miracle, collective hallucination or meteorological accident, here again we see only the crowd observing it.

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