Secular chapels/oratories

Jean-Claude MILLET's work is part of a collective effort to help mankind evolve towards his destiny as a human being.

Most of his work is concerned with creations which, whatever the medium used, initially open up a new stage in knowledge, whether through the aggregation of hitherto unrelated data, intellectual speculation or pure products of sensitivity.

On the occasion of the Biennale d'Art Contemporain, four secular chapels/oratories are set at the ends of faÿsses planted with oak trees. In the center of the faÿsses, an installation features 8 tableaux of chairs.

They are consistent with the notion of cultivars of human values in the virtual plant cultivation greenhouse, and with the performance that calls on the Académie française to recognize Liberté-Égalité-Fraternité, with its two hyphens, as a word designating an unbreakable system of values.

In the rouvière, a chapel-factory contains a three-headed, blue-white-red republican watering can by Bruno d'Abrigeon, a visual artist friend from the Ardèche. Another is a hands-on experiment. In a magnificent art deco washbasin, blue-white-red wooden beads are mixed together by the flow of water.

One of the scenes with the chairs consists of three blue, white and red tolix steel chairs in conversation on a 1.6 m² white lacquered steel slab.