Les artistes qu'on mérite

In an increasingly turbulent world, what kind of artists do we need? Blurring the lines between fiction, performance, and documentary elements, The Artists We Deserve explores art as a sensory revolution. Upon his death, Serge Fayolle, an art teacher, is unable to identify the place where he has just ended up. This place is the Purgatory imagined by Daphné Biiga Nwanak and Baudouin Woehl, a room where the wait is endless and in which artists from different eras must learn to coexist: a Renaissance sculptor, a promising literary talent cut down by AIDS, a cantankerous art teacher, a little-known 19th-century musician, and a rather ironic young visual artist. In this original play, the directing duo draws inspiration from Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists—the first book on art history, written in 1550— and transforms the stage into a reflective laboratory exploring what connects creators to their lives and work, questioning the role of art in the face of the contemporary transformations of our time.