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summer in the france pavilion.

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Gruyere Gratin de Macaroni at Chefs de France, France Pavilion, Epcot

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Minnie Mouse Topiary

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Remy's Ratatouille Adventure

May 11 2022

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Installation view of Laure Prouvost, “Deep See Blue Surrounding You/Vois Ce Bleu Profond Te Fondre,” for the France Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Courtesy of Institut français.

The Turner Prize–winning Laure Prouvost takes us on a euphoric journey to Venice in her French pavilion. Walk in from a back door, and you’re met with a rubble-filled basement, allegedly the start of the artists’ plans to dig a hole between the French and British pavilions. Upstairs, a bright-white room with a clear, seafoam-blue floor is embedded with strange still-lifes made from cell phones, branches, eggshells, glass sculptures of sea creatures, and even real doves. Go through soft gray curtains to find the main event—an engrossing, stream-of-consciousness film. The piece unfurls the fictional expedition of an eclectic crew of varying ages and backgrounds as they travel from Paris to Venice.

Prouvost’s script is a veritable artwork in itself, toying with language and translation as it swiftly jumps between English and French, with dashes of Italian, Arabic, and Dutch. She peppers in humorous phrases, like “Most onions will be electric. You’ll be the WiFi,” and sends the protagonists into tangents that appear to be, at times, symbolic or nonsensical. Striking vignettes include a lush fig kissing a bare breast; a young man jumping off the roof of the pavilion and becoming a seagull; and a pink octopus. Prouvost is drawn to the mollusk for the way it carries brain cells in its tentacles. She’s also worked in her signature motif, the boob, in the form of Venetian glass. Though utterly confounding at times, the film is undeniably joyous, visually stunning, and aurally soothing—a glorious reminder of the transformative power of art.

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France Pavilion enlightens Expo 2020 with almost 80,000 visitors in the first 10 days

France Pavilion enlightens Expo 2020 with almost 80,000 visitors in the first 10 days

Expo 2020 Dubai is off to a great start, welcoming 411,768 ticketed visits in its first ten days (official figures from Expo) since its inauguration on October 1. In this context, France is delighted to announce that 79,559 of these visitors have visited the France Pavilion in the same period of time. The fast-queue system is working at its best and the waiting time never exceeds 10 minutes, in…

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So many different choices!

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Recipe: Alsatian Onion Tart from Les Vins de Chefs de France in Epcot

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The France pavilion has such cool artwork!

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Lumiere

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France Pavilion at Epcot

May 11 2018

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Un chapeau

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