View of the Correspondances exhibition

Agnès Varda was always very attached to the work of Postman Cheval and loved to visit his Ideal Palace, which she did on numerous occasions from the 1950s onward.
Agnès Varda's Correspondances exhibition highlights the connections linking her to this unique place. It is a window to her enjoyment of relationships sustained through correspondence, her passion for postcards, and her references to the emblematic figure of the postman, who made frequent appearances in her movies and documentaries.
Photographs by Agnès Varda and artworks related to some of her movies, such as The Gleaners and I, and Two Years Later, will be presented alongside numerous pieces from her personal collection: letters exchanged with artists like Calder, Pierre François, and Chris Marker, collections of old postcards, and comments by people who enjoyed her movies.
People both known and unknown fed this postal pleasure throughout her life, as can be seen in the many documents, artistic mail, and modest art gifts, creatively and playfully incorporated into her correspondence.