Artist Beatrice Celli transforms the Passage des Fougères into a dreamlike space of collective imagination, inspired by the history of the garden—a landscape of symbols that, through a practice of craftsmanship and reuse, blends classicism and folklore. This metaphorical garden is conceived as an initiatory path, strewn with a memento mori garland, a fountain adorned with a fantastic bestiary, and a pavilion designed as a cosmic confessional. The Garden of Allegories is an invented locus amoenus, an invitation to cultivate a separate world that lies hidden deep within us.
—B.C.

In classical literary tradition, a locus amoenus refers to an ideal place in harmony with nature and far from the tensions of urban life, where the peaceful existence of shepherd-poets unfolds in song, poetry, and the disinterested pleasures of love.

Curator: Éric Mangion