L'Art du chevalement

At the bottom of pits 9 and 9 bis, Orfeo, a young miner, accompanies Pigeon, a valiant horse who, after years of hard work in the mine, is about to retire. Instead of emerging at the foot of the headframe overlooking the shaft, Orfeo and Pigeon find themselves in front of the Louvre Lens museum, empty of visitors.

This mysterious journey through time, between dreams and questions, remains unexplained. Orfeo, struck by the beauty of the place, rides through the museum on his horse. In a suspended stroll, he dialogues with the works, ancient, classical, sacred or daring, suddenly endowed with life and movement.

Through this exchange between the young miner and the museum's masterpieces, an intimate and obvious link emerges: that between the history of art and the history of the people of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coalfield.

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