Group Exhibition — Contraste and Indifference

The exhibition Contraste and Indifference curated by Catherine Bédard will take place from September 13 to November 23, 2025 at Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham and from February 12 to May 16, 2026 then in Paris.

The Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment is delighted to announce the exhibition Contraste and Indifference, in partnership with the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, bringing together two highly regarded French and two Canadian artists. The exhibition is curated by Catherine Bédard.

The challenge is significant: how can a dialogue be created between two places that, at first glance, seem entirely opposed? On one hand, a remote site on the banks of a small river, nestled at the edge of a Quebec forest; on the other, a formal institution steeped in symbolism and representation, located in one of the cultural capitals of the Western world.

As if in response to the world's upheavals and the indifference that too often marks history, a curator, two women artists from Canada and two highly inspired women artists from France invite us to transcend time and place. Transcend in the sense of trying to understand, bear witness to and imagine places in their history, complexity and interdependence.

The practices of these women artists often take place in countries that are foreign to them. These journeys and explorations are part of their way of discovering, imagining and creating. Together, in the sensitivity that drives them and the delicacy of the gesture they make, they create connections and solidarities that reunite art and life.

With this in mind, the Foundation invites you to discover over 25 works - drawings, photos, sculptures and video capsules - both inside the pavilion and in its fern gardens, from September 13 to November 2, 2025.