Une Chambre à Soi

Château La Coste is pleased to present ‘Une Chambre à Soi’, a group exhibition curated by Margaux Plessy bringing together over fifteen emerging international artists in dialogue with four leading female figures in art history to tell the story of one night, from sunset to sunrise. Displayed in the Richard Rogers Gallery from 14 September - 12 January 2025, visitors will be immersed in an intimate bedroom setting, guided by a rhythm of works that evoke the different phases of a fragmented, near-sleepless night.

An avid reader of literature and poetry, Plessy takes the title of the show from Virginia Woolf’s extended essay of the same name ‘A Room of One’s Own’, which spoke to her of themes of intimacy, secrecy and the possibility of imagination.  Also inspired by her own personal experiences of insomnia, Plessy invited a group of emerging French and international artists to create new works that express their interpretations of dreams, nightmares and restlessness, and explore sleep, or a lack thereof, as an instigator of creativity. This tightrope walk is accompanied by a story made up entirely of words, extracts and ideas borrowed from some of the greatest authors of French literature, collected and arranged by Plessy.

The exhibition begins with an invitation to close one’s eyes and ends with an invitation to reopen them. In the meantime, on a solitary night, visitors will have experienced the transition from dusk until dawn through paintings, sculptures and tapestries.