Toulouse. “Still little-known” photos from great photographers, here is the new Abattoirs exhibition

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For those who love photography, the Slaughterhouse Museum and the Water Tower of Toulouse suggests that they “Open their eyes”. Since this is how the two establishments, brought together for the first time in their history, named their joint exhibition.

300 photographs from the collections of two museums

Since October 11, 2024, and until May 18, 2025, no less than 300 photos are released in the Abattoirs museum which adjoins the Raymond VI garden.

In unison, the two establishments offer a nice selection of their collections covering the 20^e and 20^Ith centuries. A rich heritage “still little known”, they relate, and a great way to promote it during the work on the Water Castle.

Great photographers on display

Between the walls of the Abattoirs, big names in photography will actually have their photos on display. Jean Dieuzaide, Robert DoisneauSabine Weiss, Sophie Calle and Agnès Varda, to name just five.

Between them, the artists promise visitors to the Abattoirs diverse and varied formats: documentary photography, intimate views, archives, installations and photojournalism. The whole will be exposed on the ground floor of the museum located on the banks of the Garonne.

The images distributed by theme in eight rooms

In total, eight rooms will serve as a platform for hundreds of images. With a theme for each. The first is entitled “On the spot” and honors the quest for the decisive moment and images on the run, often taken on film, so dear to Henri Cartier-Bresson.

The second, “Parallel Realities”, highlights surrealism in photography. The third, “Sublime the banal”, is inspired by the work of Marcel Duchamp and his famous ready-made.

Subsequently, room four, “Art and Matter” advocates critical photography of society, while the next space, called “The Factory of Self”, will be filled with portraits of all kinds.

The last three rooms will decline the self-portrait with “Double Je”, the games of framing and construction of an image, as original as they are, via “Perspectives – Places”, then the lines and architectures with interesting graphics, as could have been being the Victor-Hugo market in the eyes of Jean Dieuzaide, in the final “Perspectives – Lines” room.

Open your eyes exhibition
From October 11, 2024 to May 18, 2025
At the Toulouse Abattoirs Museum, 76 Allées Charles de Fitte
Price: €8 full price, €5 reduced price

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