MAKE PLACE FOR
MINI-WORLDS
Tiny art to see the bigger picture
YOUTH SPACE
MINI-WORLDS
Inspired by Isaac Cordal’s tiny figures, Mini-Worlds invites children aged 4 to 10 to enter a miniature universe, scaled to their height, where imagination meets the poetry of detail.
Presented in La p’tite voûte within a scenography designed especially for young visitors, the exhibition features sculptural works by Laurent Pagano and Andrée-Anne Laberge, two Québec artists who draw on their own inner child to create delicate, small-scale houses. Through playful shifts in scale and fantastical constructions, Mini-Worlds reveals hidden realms—inviting contemplation, sparking wonder, and nurturing an early awakening to art.
THE SPACE
Tucked away in the historic undercroft of EXMURO’s Aire publique, La p’tite voûte is a new space dedicated to young audiences. This warm and inviting environment brings together works by local artists alongside creations made by children during school workshops. Blending play, discovery, and quiet reflection, La p’tite voûte welcomes visitors of all ages to extend their visit in a setting designed to spark curiosity and the joy of experiencing art as a family. A gentle haven at the very heart of public art.
Dates
From 27 September 2025
Location
La p'tite voûte, Aire publique EXMURO
Andrée-Anne Laberge
Andrée-Anne Laberge explores the house as a silent witness to catastrophe—whether natural or deeply personal. Working in miniature, she traces how tragedies leave their mark on domestic spaces. Her fragile dwellings appear invaded by the elements, suspended in time or tipping toward collapse. By reducing scale, Laberge makes adversity more graspable, even poetic, transforming ruin into a space for contemplation. Architecture becomes memory: cracks, collapses, and imbalances speak of a buried past. Yet within this vulnerability, light emerges. Nature quietly returns, hinting at renewal. Through this delicate yet tension-filled practice, the artist probes our relationship to home, to loss, and to resilience—turning every damaged house into a poignant place, imbued with hope.
LAURENT PAGANO
Laurent Pagano creates miniature sculptures that blur the boundaries of scale and redefine our sense of space. Centered around domestic furniture, his works sprout with tiny architectures: houses, staircases, and footbridges that appear to proliferate, parasitize, and inhabit their hosts. By intertwining nature and urbanity, Pagano fashions worlds to be explored: nocturnal landscapes filled with mystery, lit by starry skies and faint glimmers of light. Miniaturization becomes a metaphor for vision itself: each sculpture and observation deck where certain details slip beyond sight. The eye is drawn to search the interstices of an artificial night in which reality bends and distorts. Through contrasts of scale, form, and color, his work conjures both the intimate and the infinite, guiding us between contemplation and wandering, in a fragile balance between architecture and imagination.
