Sète-Palermo

International festival of contemporary art.
With Ruby Cicero, Daniel Dezeuze, Gilles-Marie Dupuy, Gandolfo Gabriele David, Suzy Lelièvre, Ignazio Mortellaro, Rossella Poidomani.

In September and October, the Sète-Palermo festival welcomes some thirty artists from Sète, Montpellier and Palermo on various sites in the three cities.

As a partner of the event, the Crac Occitanie is presenting one of the exhibitions in Sète. This intercultural meeting in partnership with the BAM (Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo) brings together artists recognized on the international scene as well as young graduates, women and men from all geographical and social backgrounds.

Sète, which has been home to a large Italian community for generations, and Palermo, a quintessential Latin city, were destined to come together. The city of Palermo was the natural choice because of its emerging art scene, its maze of narrow streets similar to certain districts of Sète, and its volcanic energy.Two cities, two societies of artists whose common resonance revolves around themes like the vibrance of seriality, fragility, rooting. A shared research field that examines the notion of rites, nature, and science. And on the horizon, in the background, is the Mediterranean, whose banks have been populated by artists and adventurers since the dawn of time…

Painting, performance, literature, music, video… a unique chance for the perspectives of two Mediterranean ports to meet!

This year, works by 31 artists from Sète, Montpellier and Palermo can be found in Sète (Le Cyclo, L’échappée belle bookshop, La Chapelle du Quartier Haut, the MIAM, La Ola, Galerie Zoom, La Pop Galerie, L’école des beaux-arts …).

Festival highlights:

• 12 to 18 September 2022 in Sète and Montpellier.
• 17 to 23 October 2022 in Palermo.
  Full programme at: www.sla-festival.com

SLA is the acronym for Sète Los Angeles. SLA is a non-profit cultural association created in January 2018 for the purpose of organising cultural events in Sète and other cities around the world. Founded by Sophie Dulin, Pauline Boyé and Marie Taillan, it has created a travelling biennial contemporary art festival. This project took shape around the artists of Sète and the desire to open up to other cultures.