Mireille Loup "L'homme à la courge", purchased in 1999, pp. 76-77, catalogue of the Swagemakers collection, part of which is currently exhibited at the STDLK Museum Breda in the Netherlands.

I am delighted to be alongside Vanessa Beecroft, Nan Goldin, Rineke Dijkstra, Shirin Neshat, Loretta Lux, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, David Amstrong, Erwin Olaf, Paul McCarthy, Beat Streuli and many others.

Soulmates, Swagemakers Collection, Publishers Van Spijk Art books / STDLK Museum Breda, Venlo, Nederlands, 2024.

The management of fresh, salt, or brackish waters, achieved since the 19th century, is disrupted by climate changes that are drying out the delta's soil. Rainfall is decreasing, the flow of the Rhône is declining, and salty soils require human activities to adapt and reinvent themselves in order to endure.

The partners of the exhibition include: La Compagnie des Salins du Midi, the LUMA Foundation, the Museon Arlaten, the Department of Bouches-du-Rhône, the Institut Agro Montpellier UMR G-Eau2, the National Institute of Archaeological Research, the National Archives, Simon Porte Jacquemus, and the Marius Fabre soap factories.

The artists featured are: Romain Boutiller, Lucien Clergue, Alain Coste, Raymond Galle, Louis Hierle, Tadashi Kawamata, Mireille Loup, Carle Naudot, Frédérique Nalbandian, Lionel Roux, and Axelle Remaud.

This exhibition and its program are supported by the Ministry of Culture, the City of Arles, the Department of Bouches-du-Rhône, and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region.

From October 1st to March 31st: 10am-5pm (last entry 1h30 before closing)

From April 1st to September 30th: 9am-6pm (last entry 1h30 before closing)

Open every day except December 25th, January 1st, May 1st and weekends from November to January excluding school holidays.

Average duration of the museum visit: 1h30

An video installation in the Salle des Grisailles during the Night of the European Museums then until June 2 at the Commanderie Sainte Luce.

La sombre jalousie des Dames

Commissioned by the musée Réattu in Arles, as part of the "Silence, ça tourne!" initiated by Julie Mazé, cultural mediation officer, and Mireille Loup in 2020.

For this fourth edition, on a proposal from Julie Mazé, Mireille Loup was inspired by the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the film noir genre.

An video performance in five days, the pitch is given to a team of teenagers when they arrive at the museum, while they meet for the first time. Together, they discover, analyze, write the synopsis and the scenario, choose sets and costumes, film, sound record, light the shot and play within the museum, under the amused gaze of visitors, guards and the museum team. 
Composed of scenes which gradually interweave into a story of murders, this film features typical characters of this very macho cinematic genre, in which women are often jealous, vengeful or victims and men are seducers, saviors or guilty.
In front of and behind the camera, Mireille Loup, assisted by Julie Mazé, leads this young team within the museum for making this film a production of subtle lighting that reveals the photogenic nature of this extraordinary place.

Duration: 5’5’’, loop movie

Production: Ville d’Arles, musée Réattu

Director: Mireille Loup

Distribution: Angela Napolitano: the woman in the white polka dot top / Naïs Lillamand: the woman murdered by a bullet in the head / Léna Hirsch: the woman wanting to kill by strangulation / Aaron Lapoiriere: the auctioneer / élian Biscaras: the attractive man with the glass of Scotch / Alexandre Rambure: the auctioneer's assistant / Jesse Long: the man saving his wife / Louise Giordano-Reymond: the woman being strangled / Justine Imbert: the killer with the gun.

European Museum Night on Saturday May 18 and art installation until June 2.

A photographic commission from the Musée Réattu in Arles of photographic scenes in studio lighting based on the pictorial works of Jacques Réattu. As part of the national system La Classe, l'oeuvre. As she had already realized in Bourges in 2023, Mireille Loup has orchestrated living paintings with teenagers from the Collège Ampère in Arles. This project was developped with Julie Mazé, Elisabeth Pouliquen, Claire Durand Imbert, Lise De Luca, Andy Neyrotti.

A commission from the Réattu museum in studio staging based on the pictorial works of Jacques Réattu.

A project with Claire Imbert-Durand, Julie Mazé, Elisabeth Pouliquen and teenagers from Ampère college in Arles.

The selected works will be exhibited at the museum next May and June, and will be visible during the European Museum Night.