From here we can hear the clamor rising from rue Daguerre. From Wednesday April 9 to Sunday August 24, 2025, the Carnavalet museum will celebrate Agnès Varda, eternal queen of this 14th arrondissement artery, with an exhibition which will take place in the workshop courtyard of her pink house at 88. A courtyard which will have been for almost seventy years – she lived there from 1951 to 2019 – the creative laboratory and rear base for the exploration of the street and the city by the filmmaker.
With a base of 130 partly unpublished photos, but also extracts from films, objects that belonged to him or this sculpture of his cat Nini from the archives of his production company Ciné-Tamaris, we will be rocked between its premiere exhibition in the courtyard in 1954, his film preparations, until the last days when the courtyard became a garden again.
Paris as a backdrop
A career which has also seen her wander around the capital in her classics Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), The Bride and Groom of Macdonald Bridge (1962) et Far from Vietnam (1967) that filming those who bring it to life with the Daguerreotypes (1975), an ode to the merchants and artisans of his beloved street.
One of the other areas of the exhibition will focus on women, many times celebrated by Varda, notably through the twelve female portraits created for her feature film. One sings, the other doesn’t (1977), and came out exceptionally for the exhibition. Finally, gleaners of cult names should find what they are looking for: Agnès Varda having known Jacques Demy (her husband), Jane Birkin and JR as well. The class.
When ? From Wednesday April 9 to Sunday August 24, 2025.
Or ? Carnavalet Museum, 16 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Paris 3rd.
