The iconic Étoiles d’Ivry complex, designed by architects Renée Gailhoustet and Jean Renaudie, 1969-1975. From above, you can clearly see that all the terraces are planted. On the ground floor, just under the bridge, is the Galerie Fernand Léger, the contemporary art gallery of Ivry-sur-Seine.
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Étoiles d’Ivry, photo: Robert Doisneau/Gamma-Rapho 1984 -
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Long Live the Strike, Ivry, May 1st, 2025, photo: Jason Karaïndros
Exhibition views
An overview in a few images
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The Weighing of Souls, April 2025, with the sculpture of a metal worker and ammunition lent by Jean-Philippe Stoll -
The Thinker on the pedestal/seat Tribute to Work, facing the slide show, at the opening on April 5, 2025, photo: Jason Karaïndros -
Flower Power : Make Love Not War, Lara Croft, loan by Stephane Da Fonseca, Déméval enterprise, Ivry -
Pedestal = sculpture -
Pedestal = seat -
Red plinth against a green background, Ivry, April 2025
The artist would like to warmly thank all the people and institutions without whom this project could not have moved forward and this exhibition would never have seen the light of day:
The city of Ivry-sur-Seine
The Galerie Fernand Léger team, support throughout this project
The two exhibition fitters, Édouard Sautai and Antoine Raulin, for their efficiency and sensitivity
The Municipal Archives of Ivry-sur-Seine
All participants in the different proposals
The artists of TAP#3
The participants of the Art in Context workshop, Académie de Créteil, November 2023
Philippe Jaeglé and Charles Piquion for their passionate interpretation of Voltaire and the worker
Mirela Popa for her well-deserved gold medal, and Cécile Rusterholtz for her complicity
Jean-François Rodier and the APAI (Association for the Protection of Ivry Bees) for their warm welcome, for sharing their expertise, and for the educational beehive
Stephane Da Fonseca, Déméval company, for our guest of honour, Miss Lara Croft
Jean-Philippe Stoll for the ammunition and crates
CPS, Paris, for the resurrection of the Voltaire armchair
Ha Cha Youn and Misato Naoi for their company on May 1st, 2025
Leonor Nuridsany for our exchange and the beautiful text in the catalogue
Jason Karaindros for everything
And all friends from near and far, thank you!
“No man is an island."