The Fables adventure continues.
Intended as allegories, their insightful observation of human fauna has been reincarnated throughout the ages, especially by Lafontaine, after the Greeks.
In turn, in 1927, Marc Chagall translated them into etchings with his iconic Russian storyteller’s tone.
Related and libertine, Lyne Lapointe’s embraces and her bestiary enhance Chagall’s black-and-white film by juxstasing its colorful echoes of the present.
In the theater, these “meetings of minds” ferment enriched readings and performances; this is a preoccupation of our galleries: to combine history and the present by pairing long-term projects.
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