Since the early 1980s, the FRAC Bretagne has built a collection of contemporary artworks that today numbers over 5,000 pieces. Its mission is to raise awareness of art throughout the region by fostering encounters, dialogue, and exchange.
Within this dynamic, the new collaboration between the FRAC Bretagne and the City of Ploumagoar seeks to make contemporary creation accessible to all audiences. The selection of works, drawn from the FRAC Bretagne collection and connected to this season’s theme of exploration, offers a wide range of approaches, reflecting the diversity of the visual arts — from photography, sculpture, drawing, and painting to video and beyond.

With poetry and precision, Isabelle SIMLER explores the astonishing architecture of the animal world. It is not so much the animals themselves that fascinate her, but the shelters they build: nests, burrows, webs… each a home designed for the intimacy of its inhabitant.

Her illustrations, as delicate as embroidery, reveal these habitats as natural marvels.

Through her play with the French language and the joy of reading aloud, she invites both children and adults to reimagine space — at the scale of an ant, a butterfly, or an eagle.

An exhibition that opens wide the doors of the imagination, offering a vision of the world as a patchwork of living architectures.

A graduate of ESAM Caen-Cherbourg in 2014, Thomas AURIOL lives and works in Saint-Quay-Portrieux. His paintings emerge from his journeys through landscapes, extending this desire for exploration. He conceives his recent work as a logbook that is at once documentary and dreamlike. From the nights of Ibiza to the Icelandic fjords, Thomas Auriol invites us into a painting in constant flux.
His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in France, Spain, and China, and he has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including Novembre à Vitry and Jeune Création in France, as well as in Switzerland and Romania. He has undertaken residencies at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Yishu 8 in Beijing, and aboard the trimaran Arctic Lab, sailing from France to the western fjords of Iceland.

With the support of the Individual Creation Grant from DRAC Bretagne.