Les rêveries d’Agnès

« Je suis curieuse. Point. Je trouve tout très intéressant. La vraie vie. La fausse vie… » Agnès Varda

This book, which coincides with the exhibition at the Musée Soulages in Rodez, is an invitation to (re)discover the enchanted world of Agnès Varda.

From her photographs of the beach at Sète, where she grew up, to her Cabane du Bonheur, built from the reels of her eponymous film, or the Baleine de Bachelard, a veritable coastal shelter as she calls it, to La petite mer immense, an installation based on a photograph taken on the beach at Noirmoutier – her refuge – Agnès Varda shares her reveries with us. She, the hyperactive, quick-witted enthusiast, claims the right to daydream and contemplate. Her unparalleled wealth of invention draws us in. Her installations, combining music, still and moving images, collages and everyday objects, have the power to make us happy, if not philosophical.