After Laure Prouvost in 2025, the Museums of Marseille renew their support for contemporary artistic creation by inviting an artist to take over the Centre de la Vieille Charité and create a new, site-specific work in dialogue with this historic and majestic setting. In 2026, in support of the Marseille and Mediterranean scene, they have invited the artist Adrien Vescovi, who lives and works in Marseille, to occupy not only the chapel but also the galleries of the former hospice across its different levels, within a working and exhibition timeframe deliberately conceived over the long term.

Within the setting of the Vieille Charité—engaging with its chapel, its galleries, and their shifting shadows—Adrien Vescovi envisions a monumental installation conceived as an invitation to wander. A moving, delicate, and poetic work, it connects spaces and perspectives, weaving a sensitive link between the Mediterranean architecture of the site and contemporary creation.

Adrien’s work is rooted in a textile practice that explores the resonances of artisanal gestures. In his approach, sewing, dyeing, and modest materials become carriers of a plural memory, echoing the workshops that have long lined Mediterranean shores. At the heart of his practice lies fabric—and more specifically, antique linen: a malleable element, a witness to everyday life, and a territory of silent archives. Whether marked by time, infused with natural pigments, or shaped by the artist, it accumulates traces—from those of the past to the accidental imprints of its present display. Between intimacy and revelation, it embodies both the fragility of human lives and the resilience of the gestures that accompany them.