Three Springs — Exhibitions

Three Springs, 2026

Festival L'art dans les chapelles, Pontivy, Brittany, France

Curated by Éric Suchère

From July 3 to August 31, 2026

Built above three springs, the Chapel Saint-Adrien is in relation to what flows beneath in winter and spring, and falls silent in summer. The sound of the water recorded in spring is played back during the dry months of the festival — a presence restored in its own absence. The translucent membranes, neither fully solid nor liquid, are suspended between surface and depth. What the place contains — seasonal rhythms, material states, sacred pulse — is audible and visible through sound and colour.

"A man’s world is where he lives. A tight circle of life, work and action. The rest is a vague thing, a mist. It has been the constant aspiration of mortals to shift the centre of their lives, to bring down into the mist the usual centre, and to view things in a different light. Among them, too, was the strong instinct Neftali had to enter the mist and tell the people there about things here, for they knew only of their own affairs. And, in return, to bring home, in this new light, something worth knowing.

In a word, there was trade, exchange."

Excerpt from Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann (third volume, Joseph in Egypt) translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter (1938)

This project is supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – Delegation in France, which co-financed it as part of the GULBENKIAN EXHIBITIONS programme, aimed at supporting Portuguese art within French artistic institutions. Sound element developed with Nuno da Luz.