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ExhibitionLa dérive du monde
CIAP Île de Vassivière

La dérive du monde

The Drift of the World - Zac Langdon-Pole

29 June 2025 > 25 January 2026

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Zac Langdon-Pole,

Born in 1988, Zac Langdon-Pole is a New Zealand-born artist who lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. He graduated from the University of Auckland’s School of Fine Art in 2010, and the Städel Institute in Frankfurt am Main in 2015. His photographic and sculptural work, made from found and manufactured objects, explores both the family and the cult scale, and questions the notion of historical reference, its structure and value system. In 2017, he was awarded the Prix Ars Viva. His work has been exhibited at the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the S.M.A.K à Gand, the Kunstverein Munich Germany, and the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art à Singapore. In 2020-21, the City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi dedicated an exhibition to him entitled Containing Multitudes.

The exhibition

For his first solo exhibition in France, the artist presents new sculptures, installations and photographic works that explore the themes of transformation, repetition and the spiral of history. He proposes unlikely juxtapositions: hybrid forms that bring together divergent time scales, materials and systems of knowledge. Taking its title from a poem by William Bronk, the exhibition traces our innate desire to organise and make sense of a world in perpetual motion. From grains of sand to moving bodies, La dérive du monde traces multiple trajectories, focusing on the specific in infinity, as well as the tendency of everything to be born and to become dust again.

Around the exhibition

    • Vernissage Saturday 28 June (free and open to all) : 5pm – Free tour of the exhibition 5.30pm – Commented tour in the company of the artist 6pm – Cocktail dinner open to all

Taste the artothèque

    :After a visit to the exhibition, come and borrow works from the Frac-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine collection during a convivial time. With the participation of Olivier Dantony (Le Cellier d’Olivier). L’espace artothèque is a relay of Frac-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

  • Accompanied tour of the exhibition and architecture: From 1 July to 31 August: Tuesdays 11am Thursdays 18 September, 2 October, 13 November and 4 December 5pm In the company of a guide who will adapt to your curiosity, set off to discover the works in the exhibition and the architecture of the CIAPV! The tour will end with a special selection of works by Frac-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, linked to the world of Zac Langdon-Pole. Open to all.
  • Visit-workshop: Stone Age From 1 July to 31 August, Wednesdays to Fridays, Tuesdays 21 & 28 October, Thursdays 23 & 30 October, Fridays 24 & 31 October. Visit à 10:30 am and 3 pm.Inspired by the stones of Vassiviere, used in the works at the Bois de Sculptures, in the exhibition by Zac Langdon-Pole and in the architecture of the CIAPV, this three-part workshop will take place in the heart of the CIAPV;This three-part workshop, preceded by a visit to La d&eacute rive du monde, invites you to explore the intensity of minerals. Marbling, sand rubbing, gravel painting, creating granito or speckled effects, acrylic monotype, light table drawings… experiment with different techniques and unleash your creativity by creating a painting with stones!
  • In bookshop „La dérive du monde“ new edition from CIAPV, and a special selection of books about the exhibition chosen by the artist.                                       

Workshops and tours are by prior arrangement

    • Length: 1hr 30mins – 3 years and over
    • Price for workshops: 8€/pers.Duration 1h. 8€/ 5€/pers.
    • Exhibition visits: 5€ full rate,  3€ reduced rate, Free for under 12s
    • Children must be accompanied by an adult.
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Île de Vassivière87120 Beaumont du Lac 

(33) 5 55 69 27 27 

HOURS: exhibition and bookshop July – August : daily: 11am-1pm and 2pm-6pm From September à June: Wednesday to Friday: 2pm-6pm, WE and public holidays: 11am-1pm and 2pm-6pm (except during exhibition set-up-set-down) Sculpture wood, free access all year round. L’île de Vassivière est piétonne, une petite marche est nécessaire pour traverser le pont. 

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