The titles of Pierre Ardouvin’s exhibitions, meticulously and mischievously chosen by the artist, including “Tout est affaire de décor”, “Marcel”, “Soupe de têtes de fantômes”, “Prouve que tu existes” and “Purple Rain”, make it easy to guess that “PARADE”, the title of the exhibition at the Centre d’art de Châteauvert and a work produced for the occasion, is a reference to the world of the circus and above all to Jacques Tati’s film of the same name, but it is also a way of suggesting avoidance, riposte and diversion in the face of the unexpected or an attack.

Pierre Ardouvin has seized upon territorial realities, not so far removed from those we call global, and their excesses, through his formal lexicon to compose a “PARADE” like a small world inhabited by domestic merry-go-rounds, like a joyful and melancholy invitation, fragile and concrete, where the maximum meets the minimum.