Cabinet of curiosities #5 | The beautiful weird

Mathilde Lestiboudois | Camille Mercandelli-Park | Florian Veydarier

When Baudelaire said that ‘beutiful is always weird’, he was not suggesting that weirdness should be artificially cultivated in art. On the contrary, he was suggesting that the beautiful often contained a dose of unconscious weirdness that enhanced the interest of a work. It is around this theme that session #5 of the Cabinet of Curiosities opens, in which three artists explore a universe imbued with unconscious strangeness and incongruity, without seeking to cultivate it artificially. This exhibition invites us to reflect on the nature of beauty and aesthetics, while considering the bizarre as an essential ingredient of art and beauty.