Taking its name from the painting in Francis Picabia’s Transparences series, Atrata becomes a sign of what lies outside the realm of normal expectations.

 

Villa Atrata, located in La Roche Posay, is deeply intertwined with the river Creuse, and the Middle-Age chapel in the neighbouring village of Angles-sur-l’Anglin appears as an enigmatic fragmented architecture. Both have been carefully repurposed to generate sites for viewing art in direct contact with nature. The Parisian space of Atrata, located in the courtyard of the historical Hôtel de Lagrange built in 1731, invites for a more intimate view of the exhibitions on 4 rue de Braque.

 

For its first iteration in 2022, Atrata invited Nick Mauss to create a large-scale work in the chapel, and Megan Francis Sullivan to exhibit paintings from the series ‘The Bathers (Inverted)’ in the Villa Atrata. The writer Kristian Vistrup Madsen stayed at the Villa to respond to these works in residence.

 

For its second exhibition, American painter Dustin Hodges was invited to produce a group of paintings during his residence in La Roche-Posay. Its exhibition will open in La Roche-Posay on May 27 and will be accompanied by a publication including a conversation between Amy Sillman and Dustin Hodges.