Extending the collections of the Musée Saint-Louis, the exhibition “Éclats du Crépuscule” unfolds in four successive tableaux as a musical score. The overture is a slow ascent, the first movement flows like a melancholic adagio, the second bursts an allegretto before the finale falls into silence. Bringing together for the first time artists Camille Fischer, François Génot and Nicolas Schneider, these four sequences feature installations, sculptures, textile works and drawings that reflect an allegorical perception of the world.

Through watercolours, ink, and even evaporation, Nicolas Schneider (b. 1964) uses water as his expressive medium, along with fire, an indispensable element of his bronze sculptures. His drawn, engraved and forged pieces enter into dialogue with the ceramics, charred elements and grass sculptures of François Génot (b. 1981). Alongside them, the works of Camille Fischer (b. 1984) act as counterpoints and points of connection within the vitrines of La Grande Place, taking on the form of a fountain or embroidered linen and silk. 

Beyond their shared roots in the Grand Est region, these artists are united by their approaches and respective explorations of nature, both precious and fragile. This nature fully inhabits the four sequences of the exhibition. Each of these translates atmospheric states and more broadly states of our world: the first tableau summons telluric forces, the second evokes an enigmatic garden, and the third an explosion of elements. The final chapter exalts ruin to highlight what remains and what can be reborn from this debris, underscoring the beauty and hope that emerge from these éclats du crepuscule.