Since the evening of Friday 1is November 2024, the walls of the restaurant Le Pigeonnier, in Querrien (Finistère), are decorated with a long colorful fence made of 86 pallet boards. I took them apart then sanded them to make them the support for so many small tall paintings.
explains painter Valérie Dumont. I walk around, I meet people, I photograph them and I stage them on each board, in the setting that the person inspires me.
Each board evokes a person
She adds to the table what she draws from her little treasure boxes, objects from her childhood, which she finds, which she keeps. Each board evokes a person from Querrien or elsewhere. We recognize, for example, Alain Keryhuel, the boss of Le Pigeonnier – as it goes up a press, I put it into an apple juice maker
– or even Nadia, his wife: it is luminous, so I put it in the universe, with the moon and the stars.
We also meet Cécile Guitton, Glawdys Marchet, Pierre-Yves Caillaud, Cécile Keruzek, Yann Richard, their daughter Naïg, Titi, David, and so many others.
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In addition to the boards, Valérie is exhibiting around forty paintings: illustrated proverbs, very naive, and some designed with recycled objects on the theme of pollution.
His third exhibition in Brittany
The whole thing is certainly very original, poetic, colorful, joyful. Valérie Dumont has many exhibitions to her credit in Seine-et-Marne, a department which she recently left to settle in Guilligomarc’h (Finistère). After Hennebont (Morbihan) and Malguénac (Morbihan), this is his third exhibition in Brittany. Certainly not the last.
For her opening on Friday, Valérie Dumont, who has more than one string to her bow, including pretty vocal cords, was accompanied by singer Franck Terranova and their group Vava et les Terranova, with whom she sang the song for the forty people present.
Valérie Dumont’s exhibition is on view at the Pigeonnier until the end of February, in the evening, from Wednesday to Sunday (6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.), as well as Friday (12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.).
