Dates: March 6–May 24, 2026
Opening reception: Friday, March 6, 2026, 6:00–8:00 p.m. — the exhibition opening and reception in the salons of the Hostellerie La Farandole hotel. Exhibition presentation, saxophone music, and an aperitif.
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Admission is free.
Venue: Hostellerie La Farandole hotel, www.hostellerielafarandole.com, 140 Chemin de la Plage, 83110 Sanary-sur-Mer, Provence, France
All works are available for purchase.
The exhibition “Harmony of Silence” brings together the works of two French artists — paintings by Myriam Doridot and sculptures by Alys Baillard — in a subtle dialogue on presence, trace, and inner space.
On Myriam Doridot’s canvases are everyday Eastern scenes, moments of contemplation, waiting, and calm. Her works do not tell stories, but convey states of being — giving form to moments of pause, when the gaze stills and time becomes almost tangible. The artist’s painting is attentive to silence, to what unfolds unnoticed. Myriam Doridot is from Burgundy; she grew up in an artistic milieu, beside her father’s painting studio. For Myriam, art is now an essential space of self-expression. The artist works primarily in dry pastel and oil painting, within the field of figurative and abstract art. All of Myriam Doridot’s work is driven by a single impulse — to give form to an inner presence and to offer the viewer a sensual, intimate, and quiet experience.
The geodes — spheres by Alys Baillard presented in the exhibition — continue this experience through clay and resin. Alys recreates natural forms and experiments with the aesthetics of wabi-sabi within the philosophy of kintsugi.
Geode art is a technique that recreates the appearance and texture of stones using epoxy resin and clay.The wabi-sabi technique focuses on simplicity, natural materials, and the unaltered appearance of objects, finding beauty in imperfection. The word “wabi” translates as “modesty” or “simplicity.” In turn, “sabi” means “seasonality” or “withering.” Sometimes wabi-sabi is translated from Japanese as “beauty in imperfection.”The philosophy of kintsugi lies in the acceptance of flaws and imperfections. Just as one honours wrinkles and scars on the body, kintsugi proposes not to discard broken porcelain, but to value it as it is, with its rich life history.
For Alys Baillard, imperfections become a language, and cracks and flaws a source of meaning: in her geodes, fragility is transformed into a poetic force.
Painting and sculpture meet in the exhibition in a shared search: to make visible what is not obvious, to listen into the silence, and to reveal the harmony born of simple gestures and inner forms.
