A wide installation view of contemporary artworks in the chapel-like space at Château de Montgoger.

Collection

Collection Margaux & Raphaël Blavy

Une collection engagée dans les pratiques contemporaines d'Afrique et de ses diasporas.

Vision

The collection is built as an intellectual and visual space: a way of listening to artists, following ideas over time, and allowing exhibitions to become a form of research.

Its focus on contemporary African and diasporic practices is not geographic shorthand, but a sustained engagement with memory, identity, circulation, material intelligence, and forms of resistance.

Château de Montgoger gives this project a spatial and temporal anchor: the collection unfolds through architecture, landscape, installation, public dialogue, and long-term transmission.

Collection axes

An artwork installed in a stone passage at Château de Montgoger.

Mémoire et réécriture

Works that reopen archives, oral histories, colonial traces, and familial memory as active fields of interpretation.

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A figurative contemporary artwork installed against a pale stone wall.

Corps et identités

Practices that consider the body as image, witness, territory, ritual, and political presence.

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A material artwork installed in a rough historic interior wall.

Matières et transformations

Material languages of repair, assemblage, textile, pigment, metal, earth, and architectural residue.

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A tall architectural space at Château de Montgoger with contemporary works installed above the stone walls.

Espaces et circulations

Questions of migration, landscape, passage, extraction, hospitality, and the movement of images across geographies.

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Transmission

The collection carries an intergenerational horizon, with Margaux and Raphaël named as future recipients of a cultural project designed to outlast the present moment.

Read the transmission note