VIVIANE SASSEN

Venus & Mercury – untold stories of French Versailles, 29 June 2022 - 28 October 2022

A solo exhibition of the artist Viviane Sassen Venus & Mercury will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb on the same day as the leading festival exhibition, June 29th, at 8 p.m. The series of photographs, film, objects and collages Venus & Mercury was created as a result of six-month research conducted by the artist at the French Palace of Versailles.

Sassen dived into the palace archives and used artifacts, architecture, sculptural fragments and even Marie-Antoinette's private correspondence to create a new work alluding to untold stories of Versailles. In making her own story, Sassen worked with a group of young women who grew up near the palace. At the same time, they appear and disappear as models in photographs that mix the ancient with the modern and the real with the fake.

Venus & Mercury – untold stories of French Versailles, 29 June 2022 - 28 October 2022
Museum of Contemporary Art
Zagreb, Croatia