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Now repurposed as a cultural venue, Grandes Locos are hosting the 17th Lyon Biennale, where the site’s history will resonate in the artists’ works, which speak of travel and movement, repair and care, collective strength, and protest.

The artworks gathered at macLYON create a sentimental mood and outline a map of romantic, friendly, or familial relationships, along with their rituals...

Welcomed in the exhibition spaces of the Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie, located at the heart of the Hôtel-Dieu, a heritage site once dedicated to hospitality and care, built in the 15th century and rebuilt according to the plans of Jacques-Germain Soufflot during the 18th century, the artists have conceived works that reflect care and attention to others. They evoke rituals that are sometimes remembered, invented, syncretic, and cross-cultural: rites of healing, incantation, and passage.