ISABEL CARVALHO
Langages Tissés
02.07.2021 / 24.10.2021
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Starting from the history of the Le Lait art centre, housed in an old municipal library—once the residence of Admiral de Rochegude from 1787 on—, Isabel Carvalho has imagined a series of novel pieces devised to link her work on language with the distinctive character of the city of Albi, and this private mansion. She is especially interested in its former proprietor, Henri Pascal de Rochegude—the mansion and its grounds still bear his name—and his passion for literature. With his experience of philosophical and social studies, Rochegude stepped down from his office as mayor of Albi and public life at the age of 58. His personal library held a wide variety of volumes, some of which, deemed to be subversive, were burnt in 1834 by the family heirs, in order to ensure that he had a religious funeral.