Songe d’une nuit d’été (Midsummer night’s dream)
Collections of Frac Poitou-Charentes, Pays de la Loire, Centre
March–November 2014
From March to November, 15 venues will play host to the collections of the Frac Centre, Frac Pays de la Loire and Frac Poitou-Charentes, alongside new offerings, in an ambitious circuit that blends contemporary art and heritage.
This second edition of the Songe d’une nuit d’été (Midsummer Night’s Dream) initiative—a circuit launched in 2012—spans multiple thematic approaches in a series of exhibitions throughout the region. They bring together a body of artworks that offers a look at facets of reality, giving rise to meaningful one-on-one encounters, conversations and dialogues.
The strength of the artworks lies in astute alliances: landscape linked with industry, progress with history, architecture with experimentation, language with representation, frailty with power, reality with imagination, memory with narration, poetry with humour. The dissemination of the works helps to enhance the profile and prestige of exceptional heritage sites, marked by their unique history and architecture.
Exhibition dates and venues
Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
Sleeping in a City that Never Wakes up
14 March–7 September
City of Thouars
Centre d’art la Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc
Les choses voient (Things see)
28 June–12 October
Galerie des Ecuries du Château
L’apparition de l’image (The appearance of the image)
28 June–12 October
Musée Henri Barré
Camouflage
28 June–26 October
Château d’Oiron
Cheese, please ! 
29 June–28 September
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
A late evening in the future: Gerard Byrne
5 July–2 September
Château d’Angers
TRAVAUX : Etienne Bossut au château d’Angers (WORKS : Etienne Bossut in the castle of Angers)
20 June–21 September
Fontevraud Abbey
A livre ouvert (Opened book)
14 June–30 September
La Cité idéale (The ideal city)
14 June, 2pm–2am
performance by Marcelline Delbecq at 2pm
Les Turbulences – Frac Centre, Orléans
Chronomanifestes
30 April–10 August
Double Jeu (Double game)
17 May–17 August
Ceci était, ceci n’était pas (This was, this was not)
Sarah Fauguet and David Cousinard following an artist residency at the CHD Daumézon
28 May–10 August
City of Chinon
Roulez les mécaniques (The Machine)
Chapelle Sainte-Radegonde
29 June–22 September
Collégiale Saint-Mexme
29 June–22 September
Galerie contemporaine de l’Hôtel de Ville
29 June–19 October
Carroi-Musée
29 June–17 November
Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
Paysage (Landscape)
5 April–2 November
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours
Expérience no.8 : Entre-temps (Experience no.8 : Meanwhile)
6 June 2014–June 2015
