In the beginning are landscapes and bodies, landscapes in bodies then, as dreams often like to produce, a tangle of situations that are blurry, pleasant, and sometimes disturbing. Faced with work acting as mirages, the gaze wanders. As a «mise en abyme» of the insular location of the Fondation Carmignac in Porquerolles, The Inner Island exhibition, curated by Jean-Marie Gallais, explores an essential driver of creation, as powerful as it is common: the distancing of reality as to reveal an interiority. While contemporary art has never been as political or engaged with the world as it is now, a whole section of creation, and particularly in painting, is seemingly breaking away from it in order to offer vertiginous immersions into inner worlds and recesses. What is the significance of this current distancing from reality?

From April 29th to November 5th, 2023, more than 80 works by fifty artists, from private and public collections, including the Carmignac Collection, but also new productions, will draw the dotted outlines of an inner island, inviting each visitor to fill in the gaps in their own way. From Peter Doig to Anna-Eva Bergman, from Ali Cherri to Auguste Rodin, the exhibition proposes to confront visitors with these different worlds floating outside of known geographies and temporalities. The exhibition will feature archipelagos, as with Agnieszka Kurant’s installation sculpted by termites, under the water ceiling of the