From Saturday, March 14, 2026 to Monday, August 31, 2026
"S'absenter quelques siècles, et revenir" by Sara Ouhaddou, a contemporary art exhibition in dialogue with the permanent collection of the Lattara-musée Henri Prades archaeological site, from March 14 to August 31, 2026.
Archaeology and contemporary art
Opening the doors of archaeological collections to contemporary art is one of the special features of the Lattara-musée Henri Prades archaeological site, which each year invites an artist to immerse themselves in the museum?s permanent collection. The resulting exhibition establishes a fruitful dialogue between contemporary works of art, most of which were produced on this occasion, and those discovered during the archaeological digs.
Sara Ouhaddou is an artist who lives and works in France and Morocco. In her artistic practice, she explores traditional skills, always striving to trace the original history of each craft studied: its gestures, its circulation, its influences.
Faced with archaeological objects from the ancient Mediterranean world, Sara Ouhaddou?s vision superimposes another geography: that of the Arab world, the North African Mediterranean, and the ancient migrations and dialogues between the two shores. She adds to this an unprecedented collaboration with the museum team, drawing inspiration from the intimate, day-to-day relationship with the objects, often far from the public eye.
In this exhibition, conceived as a role-playing game in which the researcher becomes an artist, the artist a researcher, the director a curator, the curator an explorer and the artisan an archaeologist, she places knowledge at the service of creation, in order to nourish the works and prolong the movement of objects through time.
An exhibition produced in partnership with MO.CO Montpellier Contemporain.
Opening:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 10am to 12pm and 1:30pm to 5:30pm
Saturday, Sunday and public holidays, 2pm-6pm (November 1 to March 31) and 2pm-7pm (April 1 to October 31).
Weekly closing on Tuesday
Exceptional closures: May 1, July 14 and August 15.
"S'absenter quelques siècles, et revenir" by Sara Ouhaddou, a contemporary art exhibition in dialogue with the permanent collection of the Lattara-musée Henri Prades archaeological site, from March 14 to August 31, 2026.
Archaeology and contemporary art
Opening the doors of archaeological collections to contemporary art is one of the special features of the Lattara-musée Henri Prades archaeological site, which each year invites an artist to immerse themselves in the museum?s permanent collection. The resulting exhibition establishes a fruitful dialogue between contemporary works of art, most of which were produced on this occasion, and those discovered during the archaeological digs.
Sara Ouhaddou is an artist who lives and works in France and Morocco. In her artistic practice, she explores traditional skills, always striving to trace the original history of each craft studied: its gestures, its circulation, its influences.
Faced with archaeological objects from the ancient Mediterranean world, Sara Ouhaddou?s vision superimposes another geography: that of the Arab world, the North African Mediterranean, and the ancient migrations and dialogues between the two shores. She adds to this an unprecedented collaboration with the museum team, drawing inspiration from the intimate, day-to-day relationship with the objects, often far from the public eye.
In this exhibition, conceived as a role-playing game in which the researcher becomes an artist, the artist a researcher, the director a curator, the curator an explorer and the artisan an archaeologist, she places knowledge at the service of creation, in order to nourish the works and prolong the movement of objects through time.
An exhibition produced in partnership with MO.CO Montpellier Contemporain.
Opening:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 10am to 12pm and 1:30pm to 5:30pm
Saturday, Sunday and public holidays, 2pm-6pm (November 1 to March 31) and 2pm-7pm (April 1 to October 31).
Weekly closing on Tuesday
Exceptional closures: May 1, July 14 and August 15.
