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Exhibition: Les Jardins de Marie – Kingdoms within kingdoms
From February 11 to March 1st, 2026, the Château de La Napoule presents a solo exhibition by Canadian artist Cynthia Imogen Hammond, as part of the Fête du Mimosa.
Through paintings, circular formats, sketches and archival materials, the exhibition offers a sensitive dialogue with the garden imagined by Marie Clews, the site’s founding figure. Inspired by Marie Clews’s own description of her gardens as “kingdoms within kingdoms,” the exhibition invites visitors to experience the site as a living, layered space shaped by memory, history and more-than-human life.
Exhibition Opening
The opening reception for the exhibition Les Jardins de Marie – Kingdoms within kingdoms will take place on Friday, February 13, 2026 at the Château de La Napoule, in the presence of the artist.
- Date: Friday, February 13, 2026
- Time: 5:30 pm
- Location: Château de la Napoule
- Free admission
About the Exhibition
A former artist-in-residence at the Château de La Napoule, Cynthia Imogen Hammond develops a practice attentive to relationships between humans, animals and living landscapes. For this exhibition, she has drawn on the château’s archives and on close observation of the garden to bring forth a sensitive memory of the site, including that of a little-known menagerie of white birds once kept there.
The exhibition brings together recent and earlier works, conceived as a sensitive dialogue with the spirit of Marie Clews’s garden. Paintings, circular formats, sketches and preparatory works form a parcours that invites visitors to explore the garden as a living space shaped by memory, imagination and the transformations of time.
Practical Information
- Location: Château de La Napoule – Avenue Henry Clews – Mandelieu-La Napoule
- Dates: 11 February to 1 March 2026
- Admission: Château entry ticket required (on-site ticketing)
➜ Admission fees and visitor information
In Connection with the Exhibition
Two public workshops, led in collaboration with poet and artist Stéphanie Filion, will take place in the château gardens in resonance with the exhibition.
➜ Workshop Listening to the Garden
About the Artist – Cynthia Imogen Hammond
Cynthia Imogen Hammond is a visual artist based in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke (Canada). For over thirty years, her work has explored relationships between humans, animals and living landscapes, with a particular interest in gardens designed, cultivated or preserved by women.
Her practice combines painting, drawing and spatial engagement, which she approaches as a collaboration with a site rather than an occupation of it. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, England, Australia and France. ➜ cynthiahammond.org
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