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This project was developed from institutional archives concerning the \u2018preservation schools\u2019 of Cadillac, Doullens and Clermont de l&#8217;Oise, public institutions for the placement of underage girls in France from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. The exploration of the lives of young girls labelled \u2018deviant\u2019 or \u2018uneducable\u2019 and locked up for several years has given rise to an installation that celebrates their forms of rebellion and their aspirations for emancipation.<br>Both poetic and political, the exhibition creates a dialogue between documents from various archives and photographs by Agn\u00e8s Geoffray based on the themes of dissent (<em>they deviate<\/em>), rebellion (<em>they rage<\/em>) and escape (<em>they flee<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbal.ch\/mbalwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-1024x186.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8344\" style=\"width:380px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbal.ch\/mbalwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-1024x186.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mbal.ch\/mbalwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-300x54.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mbal.ch\/mbalwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-1536x279.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.mbal.ch\/mbalwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-2048x372.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.mbal.ch\/mbalwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2.png 556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7902,"template":"","class_list":["post-8327","exposition","type-exposition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AGN\u00c8S GEOFFRAY AND VANESSA DESCLAUX - MBAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbal.ch\/en\/expo\/agnes-geoffray-and-vanessa-desclaux\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AGN\u00c8S GEOFFRAY AND VANESSA DESCLAUX - MBAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ELLES OBLIQUENT ELLES OBSTINENT ELLES TEMP\u00caTENT In co-production with the Rencontres d&#8217;Arles festival, French artist Agn\u00e8s Geoffray and curator Vanessa Desclaux present Elles obliquent elles obstinent elles temp\u00eatent. 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