Art installations at the Matmut Contemporary Art Center park - Daniel Havis

Works by Elparo and Flo Arnold

In June 2025, Matmut for the Arts launches its first call for creation to imagine the artistic programming of the art center park for 2027. Two new works, specially designed for the site, will take place there and interact with the landscape.

In the park's plain, land art artist Elparo proposes a monumental installation reminiscent of the silhouette of a boat, deployed in the form of an origami, nearly 80 meters long. Associated with the celebration of the birth of William the Conqueror, a major figure in Norman expansion, this work makes the ship a symbol of great epic tales, exploration, and the departure into the unknown.

In the park's carriage house, The Epic of Mora by visual artist Flo Arnold presents a luminous installation featuring a ship made of Japanese paper. Backlit and seemingly spilling onto the ground like a flow of light, the work evokes both the power of the ship and the fragility of the journey, symbolizing the quest for a new world often thwarted by the forces of nature.