October 2025 - March 2026, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, France.

Taking its name from the Italian word for “almond,” Mandorla refers to a major symbolic figure in Christian iconography: the luminous oval formed by the intersection of two circles, an image of the encounter between the celestial and the earthly, between the spiritual and the physical. The exhibition offers a contemporary reinterpretation of this zone where opposites interpenetrate, a true matrix of the sacred and its many resurgences. Conceived as a crossing of thresholds—between ages, cultures, bodies, and imaginations—Mandorla juxtaposes a selection of sculptures of saints bearing their martyrs, from the Krona Museum in Uden (Netherlands), with contemporary works in a fruitful dialogue. Medieval sculptures, drawings, photographs, installations, videos, and ritual objects thus celebrate the sanctity of the flesh, of life, and of nature, as well as the resonance between the intimate and the universal.

Featuring artists Gaylene Barnes, Lara Blanchard, Hildegarde de Bingen, L. Camus-Govoroff, Alexandra Duprez, Charles Fréger, Annabelle Guetatra, Balthazar Heisch, Lauren Januhowski, Kate MccGwire, Rachel Labastie, Yosra Mojtahedi, Armelle de Sainte Marie, peggy.m & Scarlett Owls, Chloé Viton.

Co-curated by Marie Ménestrier and Emmanuel Reiatua Cuisinier.