Françoise Pétrovitch — Sur un os — MO.CO. Panacée — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Ends in 4 months: June 21 → November 2, 2025

This summer, MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain presents solo exhibitions by two major figures of the French contemporary art scene : Françoise Pétrovitch at MO.CO. and Jean-Marie Appriou at MO.CO. Panacée. In parallel, the 2025 graduate exhibition from MO.CO. Esba (curator Sophie Lapalu) will be held at the remarkable heritage site of the Faculty of Medicine in Montpellier.

Born in Chambéry in 1964, Françoise Pétrovitch has produced a prolific body of work since the 1990s, in which she utilises a number of mediums and techniques, such as ceramics, bronze, video, painting, wash and drawing. By virtue of a constant conversation with the artists who came before her, she takes on the traditional subjects of art history — portraits, landscapes and still lifes — and folds them into a new reading of the world marked by an absence of hierarchy. The ambivalent universes she creates, peopled by a galaxy of living beings, from animals to plants to humankind’s immense diversity, play on paradoxical atmospheres that waver between the visible and the invisible, light and dark, unaltered and hybridised. This porous approach to boundaries is what enables Françoise Pétrovitch to focus the heart of her work on questions of intimacy, fragmentation, doubles, disappearance, solitude, transition and cruelty.

The MO.CO. exhibition is resolutely ambitious. Designed in close collaboration with the artist, it covers the entire spectrum of mediums and themes she explores in her work, including her relationship with directing, and brings together close to 130 pieces made between 1994 and 2025. Some of these, particularly those from the 1990s, will be shown to the public for the first time, while others — 30 or so — were created specifically for the MO.CO. project.

Curators : Rahmouna Boutayeb and Numa Hambursin